Quotes about Introspection
Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.
— St. John Chrysostom
A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
— Thomas a Kempis
Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.
— Mother Teresa
A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts.
— David Jeremiah
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
— Johannes Tauler
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
— Elie Wiesel
Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.
— Johannes Tauler
Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.
— Johannes Tauler
Let God talk to you and minister to you, where you get honest with Him - here's what I do well and don't do well; here are my shortcomings, my strengths, and my gifts.
— John Maxwell
God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.
— A Powell Davies