Quotes about Introspection

is the soul's retiring of itself, that by a serious and solemn thinking upon God, the heart may be raised up to heavenly affections.

Many people think it is enough to bring their bodies to the assembly, but never look at their hearts. They satisfy themselves that they have been at church, though they have not been with God there.

Self-examination [means] setting up a court in [your] conscience and keeping a register there that by strict scrutiny a man may know how things stand between God and his own soul.

Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.

Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Most of all I will love myself. For when I do I will zealously inspect all things which enter my body, my mind, my soul, and my heart.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.