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Quotes about Self-reflection

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.
- Madeleine L'Engle
your behaviour must be such that when you go to bed at night you will be happy with what you have done during the day
- Madeleine L'Engle
there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Mercy. It didn't mean that everything was okay, could or should be condoned. But we can't move out of ourselves and our own self-justifications until we look in the mirror and know, yes, I, too, could have done this. Or worse. My anger at my mother. At Mama for telling me things I don't want to know.
- Madeleine L'Engle
First, let us look at Peter the devoted disciple of Jesus; next, at Peter as he lived the life of self; then, at Peter in his repentance; and last, at what Christ made of Peter by the Holy Spirit.
- Andrew Murray
Nothing but the presence of God can reveal and expel self.
- Andrew Murray
The image he bears decides his destiny.
- Andrew Murray
Him, that I have allowed self, the flesh, and my own will to work where the Holy Spirit should have been honored! May God forgive me that I have allowed self, the flesh, and the will to actually have the place that God wanted the Holy Spirit to have.
- Andrew Murray
One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.
- Samuel Johnson
Secondly, [man] should weigh his abilities-or rather lack of abilities.
- John Calvin
Each of us thinks we have just cause for elevating ourselves and despising all others in comparison to ourselves—our self-love ruins us with such blindness. If, in fact, God has gifted us with something that is good in itself, we immediately make it the basis for praising ourselves to such a degree that we not only swell up but almost burst with pride.
- John Calvin
When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.
- John Calvin