Quotes about Introspection
Oh! take time, to get very low before God.
— Andrew Murray
It is not sin, but God's grace showing a man and ever reminding him what a sinner he was, that, will keep him truly humble.
— Andrew Murray
No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.
— Andrew Murray
No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.
— Samuel Johnson
In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
— Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
— Samuel Johnson
One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.
— Samuel Johnson
Many have doubts; few voice them. The silent tended to quickly condemn those honest few who air misgivings dormant deep within us all.
— Sandra Byrd
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
— Johannes Tauler
The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.
— John Adams
The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.
— John C. Wright
Secondly, [man] should weigh his abilities-or rather lack of abilities.
— John Calvin