Quotes about Self-reflection

If we are serious about these big problems, we have got to see that the solutions begin and end with ourselves. Thus we put an end to our habit of oversimplification. If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and people, we ourselves must be prepared to become poorer. If

We don't know much about our current selves, do we?

If you don't change your hairstyle because it's mostly fallen out and you don't shave, you've no cause to go chasing yourself in a mirror.

Clara had said to ask God for the truth. "Discover the truth about God, who He is, how He works, how much He loves. And then you'll uncover the truth about yourself, your sin, the ways you displease God. The truth about your life is always better to know, even if it hurts.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Through my memory of the Passion, God can purify my memory of wrongs suffered because my identity stems neither from the wrongdoing done to me, which would require the perpetual accusation of my wrongdoer, nor from my own (false) innocence, which would lead me to (illegitimate) self-justification.

If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.

The cause of all power, as of all weakness, is within; the secret of all happiness as of all misery is likewise within.