Quotes about Self-examination

Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Therefore the ungodly will not rise in the judgment," because the Jews do not confess their wrong and do not accuse themselves. But as the righteous man is the first to accuse himself, so the ungodly man is the first to defend himself. Thus the Jews do not accuse their own ungodliness but defend it.

If I examine myself I find enough unholiness to shock me. But when I look at Christ in me I find that I am altogether holy.

The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding.

Those of us who have the nerve to call ourselves Christians," W. H. Auden said in a sermon, "will do well to be extremely reticent on the subject. Indeed it is almost the definition of a Christian that he is somebody who knows he isn't one, either in faith or morals.

At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you.

Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.

We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character. It is astounding how ignorant we are about ourselves! We don't even recognize the envy, laziness, or pride within us when we see it. But Jesus will reveal to us everything we have held within ourselves before His grace began to work. How many of us have learned to look inwardly with courage?

The first thing I must be willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls and dominates me is that I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because somewhere in the past I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so because at some point in my life I yielded myself to Him.