Quotes about Self-reflection

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

There I go again. I want. I don't want. If I could love You, I could love Henry. God was made man. He was Henry with his astigmatism, Richard with his spots, not only Maurice. If I could love a leper's sores, couldn't I love the boringness of Henry? But I'd turn from the leper if he were here, I suppose, as I shut myself away from Henry. I want the dramatic always. I imagine I'm ready for the pain of your nails... Dear God, I'm no use. I'm still the same bitch and fake. Clear me out of the way.

I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.

The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference; the doubter fights only with himself.

We judge others harshly in order to judge ourselves with approval.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Criticism is one of the ultimate manifestations of pride because when we criticize someone else, we assume we are superior to them.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.