Quotes About Introspection

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

If God is watching your every move, you should probably straighten up your act a little bit.

There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are!

In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Again and again, God's Word reveals that He is not as concerned about the depth or extent of the sin we commit as He is about our attitude and response when we are confronted with our sin.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.