Quotes about Self-examination

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (James 1:22) In

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

I, real I? But where, but how, but at what price?

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.

Being in closer-than-usual contact with the actual workings of your mind can lead you to confront issues with a new and perhaps unsettling honesty.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

And to contend with the whole world is a comfort, but to contend with oneself dreadful.

man who lives under his own supervision, alone in the whole world

If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is.

When you read God's Word, in everything you read, continually to say to yourself: It is I to whom it is speaking, it is I about whom it is speaking—this is earnestness, precisely this is earnestness