Quotes about Introspection
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
— William Howard Taft
Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself…I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me…Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!
— David Brainerd
He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.
— BB Warfield
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.
— John Newton
In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.
— Mother Teresa
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are!
— Leonard Ravenhill
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are!
— Leonard Ravenhill
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
— CS Lewis
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
— Harold S. Kushner
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
— Oswald Chambers