Quotes About Self-examination

It is humbling to admit, but I have had to face the fact that the greatest danger to my ministry is me!

Because accepting blame is not natural, it takes rescuing, transforming grace to produce a humble, willing, broken, self-examining, help-seeking heart. Only divine grace can soften a person's heart. Only grace can help your eyes to see what you need to see. Only grace can decimate your defenses and lead you to confess. Only grace can cause you to quit pointing your finger and to run to your Redeemer for his forgiveness and delivering power.

Wasn't this rugged business of taking your life apart, looking at all of it and admitting and remembering and reminding yourself of all the bad - wasn't the big result of it your getting to be honest? "Exactly that," said Ferguson.

The greatest power within a person is the ability to choose change. This requires self-examination, this requires determination, this requires judging what needs to be changed, this requires moving from shame into guilt, and this requires repentance. There is a reason we struggle and react the way we do, but there is no excuse.

Men generally don't do any self-examining unless they get criticized by a woman first.

Knowledge of self is a precious commodity, dearer than the finest gemstone. The mirror I held before me now was not laced with gold filigree. It was cold and flat and bared every shadow on my soul.

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

Vooruitgang is een moreel oordeel van een wezen dat zichzelf o zo graag in de spiegel bekijkt.

More and more a bell tolled through me. It woke me up early and sometimes in the still middle of the night, sending a cold chill up over the surface of my skin. What have I done? Can I still mend this? Can I free myself? Most

A reflexividade é a raiz da objetivação

If you hate something, don't you do it too?

Then she turns to me. 'Tell me. How are you really?' she says, as if there were two versions of my life, and now she is not on the verge of tears at all, but sharp-voiced as an interrogator.

If we hurry into the holy without preparing our hearts, we will see things not as they are but as we are.

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.

When knowing what you believe is the nonnegotiable center of true faith, questions and critical self-examination pose a threat.

Scheme against your most sacred principles in thought, word and deed…. The only clear view is from atop a mountain of your dead selves.

If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

ëI am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.

I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.

“How can you say, ëI am not defiled; I have not run after the Baalsí? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.