Quotes About Self-examination

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.

El Buda examinó el fenómeno del ser humano examinando su propia naturaleza. Dejando a un lado toda idea preconcebida, exploró la realidad interior y descubrió que cada ser es un compuesto de cinco procesos, cuatro de ellos mentales y uno físico.

No matter how cleverly you sneak up on a mirror your reflection always looks you straight in the eye.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Show me a transcript of the words you've spoken, typed, or texted in the course of a day, an account of your doings, and a record of your transactions, and I'll show you your religion.

Similarly, people who are afraid to look deeply at themselves will of course be equally afraid to look deeply at God. For such persons, ideas about God provide a substitute for direct experience of God.

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

Perhaps we don't want to come face to face with the unsurrendered areas of our lives. We like our lives just as they are, even if it is less than God's best.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

I don't want to do any more movies where I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, gross.

The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

I can't tell if I'm a good person or I'm faking really well

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.

There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.