Quotes about Introspection

Ostin suddenly nodded. "Oh, I get it. It's payback. Let her stew in her own juices. Awesome.

but a good writer knows when to shut up and listen.

Sometimes we need the darkness to reveal our light.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

Talk to God before talking to the person. Discuss the problem with God. If you will pray about the conflict first instead of gossiping to a friend, you will often discover that either God changes your heart or he changes the other person without your help. All your relationships would go smoother if you would just pray more about them. As David

You dance with the Bible, but you also interrogate it. You challenge it, question it, poke it, probe it. You let it get under your skin. We read it, and we let it read us, and then we turn the gem, again, and again, and again, seeing something new over and over and over again . . .

Sabbath forces you to listen to your life. Sabbath is a day when you are fully present to your pain, your stress, your worry, your fear. Sabbath is when you let whatever you've pushed down rise to the surface. Sabbath is a day when things that are broken get fixed, when things within you that have torn are mended.

But maybe all of these questions are missing the point. Let's set aside all of the saying and doing and being and cutting holes in roofs and assume it's more simple than that. As some would say, "Just believe.

When you do crash and burn, ask yourself lots of questions about whatever it is that happened: What can you learn here? How will you see things differently moving forward? Why did I do that? leads to, What have I learned? leads to, How will I do it differently in the future?

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Something was withheld . . . We found it was ourselves.