Quotes About Introspection

Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose your words wisely.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

What I need is to believe in myself again — for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

I think most religious people experience just as much doubt as they do faith; they just don't admit it. (13)

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.