Quotes about Self-examination
The question for each of us is one of housekeeping. Are there attitudes or actions we have allowed to take root in our life that are keeping us from the pursuit of holiness?
— Darlene Zschech
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.
— Dorothy Sayers
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be." CHAPTER XVI From noise of scare-fires rest ye free, From Murders Benedicite.
— Dorothy Sayers
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
— Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
— Khalil Gibran
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
— CS Lewis
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.
— Thomas a Kempis
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
— Soren Kierkegaard
No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline
— Charles Spurgeon
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
— Johannes Tauler
Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.
— Louie Giglio