Quotes about Self-reflection

But ain't it always the way, Birdie, that the easiest faults to find in other people are the ones you got yourself?

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it. You have to wait for other people to fix themselves.

May comments, "We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things." Are

At the end of the day I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Don't take things personally. Everything's not all about you.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Christians should not compromise in hating sin, says Lewis. Rather we should hate the sins in others in the same way we hate them in ourselves: being sorry the person has done such things and hoping that somehow, sometime, somewhere, that person will be cured.

Does prayer change God or change me?

Along with Chesterton, I've had to take my place among those who acknowledge that we are what is wrong with the world. What is my snobbishness toward my childhood church, for instance, but an inverted form of the harsh judgment it showed me?

The proof of spiritual maturity, Tolstoy contended, is not how "pure" you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.