Quotes about Introspection
Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
— Isaiah 58:5
And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
— Jeremiah 13:22
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
— Jeremiah 17:9
Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
— Haggai 1:5
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
— Haggai 1:7
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
— Zechariah 7:5
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
— Matthew 7:3
How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
— Matthew 7:4
But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?
— Matthew 9:4
But some of the scribes were sitting there and thinking in their hearts,
— Mark 2:6
At once Jesus knew in His spirit that they were thinking this way within themselves. “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?” He asked.
— Mark 2:8
Knowing what they were thinking, Jesus replied, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
— Luke 5:22