Quotes about Introspection
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Yes, I pray and go to church and read my Bible. But sometimes I shake my fist at God. It's not the picture of peace I realize, and I certainly make no claims of wearing the armor of God. I'm lucky if I can get the underwear of decency on, all right?
— Rene Gutteridge
We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts.
— Rene Gutteridge
The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).
— Richard Baxter
The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).
— Richard Baxter
O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]
— Richard Baxter
what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!
— Richard Baxter
He also came to realize that he had been so busy attempting to do things for God he had not spent time enjoying fellowship with God.
— Richard Blackaby
If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.
— Richard Blackaby
You cannot heal what you do not first acknowledge.
— Fr. Richard Rohr