Quotes about Self-reflection

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has written.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand: 'Twill soon be dark; Up, heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

We need to ask ourselves some tough questions: Have I failed to live as Jesus taught me to? How responsible am I for the negative perceptions many have of the church?

Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

When they measure themselves with themselves and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding and behave unwisely. 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12

At one time I was shame-based, but I did not know I was ashamed of myself. I was seeing the results of shame in my life, but was unsuccessfully trying to deal with the fruit of it rather than the root.

Often we think about what is wrong with people and what we don't like about them. Focusing on people's faults is not showing love to them. We can choose to pray for them concerning any weaknesses they may have, and to pray for ourselves, that God will help us in our weaknesses also.