Quotes about Introspection

Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”

You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.