Quotes about Introspection

When you find yourself in a position where you could easily point an accusing finger—or have an accusing finger pointed at you—think, trust, and forgive.

The question for each of us is one of housekeeping. Are there attitudes or actions we have allowed to take root in our life that are keeping us from the pursuit of holiness?

if you stay still for long enough, the universe whispers its secrets to you.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.

I challenge you to be finished with rationalizations and hypocrisy.

If God is not changing you, you have to honestly ask, "Have I ever really converted?" To put it another way, "If your faith isn't changing you, it hasn't saved you." The people who really have the new birth—the people who really have that conversion experience—are changing.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them." "Yes," said Harriet, "but I am one of them. I disconcert myself very much. I never know what I do feel." "I don't think that matters, provided one doesn't try to persuade one's self into appropriate feelings.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be." CHAPTER XVI From noise of scare-fires rest ye free, From Murders Benedicite.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.