Quotes about Introspection

There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics. When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?

Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.

If I say, "You are wrong for judging people" then by my own standard I am wrong for judging you.

Be absolutely aware that you are self-righteous and that this is the root of your problem.

face up to the seriousness — possibly a high-handed wickedness — of what they did; and still to forgive. This

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.