Quotes About Introspection

You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering.

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair.

God tests us because we are so oblivious to the mixed allegiances in our hearts. The purpose of the test is to help us see our hearts and if they are found traitorous, we can turn back to God.

a lingering sense that something was very wrong with him. That sense is called shame.

The fastest way to bring a wrecking ball to our skewed interpretations is through confession.

If you want to know more about yourself, turn to Jesus. When

To deeply understand fear we must also look at ourselves and the way we interpret our situations. Those scary objects can reveal what we cherish. They point out our insatiable quest for control, our sense of aloneness.

Even from those very first hours, Claire was an easy and quiet child. It was as though she already knew that she could not afford to be picky or make demands.

Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain.

No one will ever love you more than you love your pain," he had replied, his words ringing even louder in the dark. She

only as long as we can laugh at ourselves are we nobody else

329 A maxim which he frequently repeats is, that the knowledge of ourselves is the necessary and only step by which we can ascend to the knowledge and love of God.

As the great work of the sanctification of our souls is to be begun by humility, so must it be completed by the same

Three things destroy a man: considering his own deeds to be really great, forgetting the sins that have been committed, considering his own opinion to be the highest.

Maybe taking ourselves for somebody else means that we cannot bear to see ourselves as we are.

the end of your praying is not to inform God, as though he knew not your wants already; but rather to inform yourselves, to

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

With rebellion, awareness is born.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.