Quotes about Introspection

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see.

It's not enough to agree that we do tolerate at least some of them. Anyone except for the most self-righteous person will acknowledge that. "After all, no one is perfect," may be our attitude. But to honestly face those sins is another matter. For one thing, it is quite humbling. It also implies that we must do something about them. We can no longer continue to ignore them as we have in the past.

His moral purity serves to magnify our impurity.

That is, humility should be as much a part of us as the clothes we wear. We wouldn't think of appearing before other people without our clothes. And we shouldn't think of appearing before other people without deliberately clothing ourselves with an attitude of humility.

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.