Quotes About Introspection

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

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

Let God talk to you and minister to you, where you get honest with Him - here's what I do well and don't do well; here are my shortcomings, my strengths, and my gifts.

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.

It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you.

You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God's holiness and our sinfulness.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!

It is in that inner peace and stillness that things begin to happen, and it was in that peace and stillness that I began to hear God's voice.

All can hear that still small voice within. Try it. Be still and know that the I AM within you is God, the Beloved. Listen... then live by it.

My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.

The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

Only a humble person can come to know God because the humble person can recognize that there is something more powerful, more complete and more perfect than they are.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.