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Quotes about Self-reflection

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
- Elisabeth Elliot
And ah for a man to arise in me,That the man I am may cease to be!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. Let your soul be filled with a sense of the excellence of Christ.
- Alistair Begg
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
- Ezra Taft Benson
For the first time I realized that gratitude and joy were connected, like conjoined twins. I couldn't be happy because I wasn't grateful and I wasn't grateful because I wasn't allowing myself to be. I was too busy hunting the next prize to appreciate the prize already at home. What I had was never enough, not because of the deficit in what I had but because of the deficit in me.
- Richard Paul Evans
It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.
- Richard Paul Evans
Since we all have blind spots, you may need to ask a third party to help you evaluate your own actions before meeting with the person with whom you have a conflict. Also ask God to show you how much of the problem is your fault. Ask, "Am I the problem? Am I being unrealistic, insensitive, or too sensitive?" The Bible says, "If we claim that we're free of sin, we're only fooling ourselves." 19
- Rick Warren
We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don't know about someone else.
- Rob Bell
Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you're not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones. Even if you are struck by lighting and injured, you made choices that led you to that spot at a particular time - and you get to choose how you feel about it afterward.
- Kevin Hart
Oh, what I know about myself isn't really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you'll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you'll think it ever so much more interesting.
- LM Montgomery
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.
- John F. Kennedy