Quotes about Introspection

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: "There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.

I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.

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