Quotes about Introspection

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.

If someone has been trying to show you something about yourself and you continue to fight it, maybe it's time to acknowledge that you might be deceived.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

That place that I had been most sure that I was right was the place that I was most wrong.

When we think about the kind of person we want others to remember us for being, it's much easier to work backward from our deaths

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

Maybe we should think about whether some imperfections might be a good thing. Maybe we should consider whether we're trying too hard to smooth all the rough edges.

The life we have is a reflection of what we think.

Rather than complaining about inconsequential little irritations, I'm asking God to get right to the root of the problem, to eradicate the dry rot and fix the cracks in my foundation. I need Him to show me how to love Him and how to love His people. Even the ones I don't like - even myself.

You do what you do because of what you think of you.

What science is showing us today is what God told us through Solomon almost three thousand years ago: "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7 NKJV). So if both the Bible and modern science teach us that our lives are moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts, then we need to make time for introspection and ask ourselves, "Do I like the direction my thoughts are taking me?