Quotes about Self-reflection

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

That's what bitter people did. Pointed the finger and blamed others. Obfuscation was a way of hiding from their own shortcomings and wounds.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

The Holy Spirit convicts us ... He shows us the Ten Commandments; the Law is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ. We look in the mirror of the Ten Commandments, and we see ourselves in that mirror. AMERICAN EVANGELIST BORN 1918 IN NORTH CAROLINA

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.