Quotes about Self-reflection

As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. And I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has written.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand: 'Twill soon be dark; Up, heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.