Quotes about Self-reflection
Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.
— John Donne
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't take things personally. Everything's not all about you.
— Oprah Winfrey
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
— Virginia Woolf
Christians should not compromise in hating sin, says Lewis. Rather we should hate the sins in others in the same way we hate them in ourselves: being sorry the person has done such things and hoping that somehow, sometime, somewhere, that person will be cured.
— Philip Yancey
Does prayer change God or change me?
— Philip Yancey
Along with Chesterton, I've had to take my place among those who acknowledge that we are what is wrong with the world. What is my snobbishness toward my childhood church, for instance, but an inverted form of the harsh judgment it showed me?
— Philip Yancey
The proof of spiritual maturity, Tolstoy contended, is not how "pure" you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
— Philip Yancey
As a Christian, my main concern is not to downgrade others' beliefs but to examine my own.
— Philip Yancey
Condemnation always leads to guilt-laden discouragement, while conviction—though often painful in pointing out our wrongdoing—still somehow encourages and lifts us, giving us hope to rebuild on.
— Priscilla Shirer
The Hasidic Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772—1810) taught, 'If you are not going to be better tomorrow than you were today, then what need do you have for tomorrow?' To which Telushkin has added: 'And if no one feels comfortable criticizing you, the likelihood that you will be better tomorrow is most probably nonexistent.
— Dennis Prager
Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.
— Denzel Washington