Quotes About Introspection

Every prayer is an agreement with yourself.

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

I am used to praying when I am alone thank God. But when I come together with other people when I need more than ever to pray I still cannot get used to it.

Only man among living things says prayers. Or needs to.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment

How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads and pray "Lord show me where I'm wrong"?

Whatever you do in revenge against your brother will appear all at once in your heart at the time of payer.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Dogs are animals that poop in public and you're supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you've got to ask yourself, "Who's the real master in this relationship?"

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.

So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last?

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.