Quotes about Self-awareness

You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you're more like them than unlike them.

Weakness is not the problem, but my delusion of my strengths is.

I understand why many people who call themselves Christians are not excited about grace. If you think your environment is your problem, you won't esteem grace, but once you admit that you're your biggest problem, you will celebrate the grace that rescues you from you.

Tender, heartfelt worship is hard for a person who thinks of himself as having arrived. No one celebrates the presence and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ more than the person who has embraced his desperate and daily need of it.

When someone who knows you points out a sin, a weakness, or a failure, are you thankful?

You'll never celebrate grace as much as you should when you think you're more righteous than you actually are.

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

Perhaps before you start confessing your sin you should first confess your righteousness.

Midlife doesn't introduce you to a new you; it forces you to admit who you have been all along.

There is no one we swindle more than we swindle ourselves. There is no one we run to defend more than we do ourselves. And like every other spiritually blind person, Joe was blind to his blindness.

If you put yourself in the center of your world, you will find plenty of things to complain about.

When you are suffering, you have to force yourself to pay attention to your private conversation, that is, the words you say to yourself that no one else hears.