Quotes About Introspection

All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens.

During the season of Lent which begins today, we renew our commitment to the path of conversion, making more room for God in our lives.

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts.

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

I'm just in that stage where I pray for God to show me how I can be effective in the world and things come up and I go. But I have yet to really dig in.

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

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn't press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.