self awareness on Rejection

Holy God, You are the anchor amidst our fears. You know the sins we can’t even admit to ourselves. You show your faithfulness even when we reject You. You offer grace even when we offer judgment. Forg...

Self-judgment may be the greatest barrier to self-understanding.

Love . . . is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

If I am in denial about my own weaknesses and sin, there will be a concomitant blindness to the greatness and glory of God.

We are not always comfortable with the true self that lies deep within us.

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

Real self-conquest is the conquest of ourselves not by ourselves but by the Holy Spirit. Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves, we must become ourselves. For no...

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, exte...

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone...

The road to character often involves moments of moral crisis, confrontation, and recovery. When they were in a crucible moment, they suddenly had a greater ability to see their own nature. The everyda...

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

One of the dangers of living in a constant state of distraction is that we never go to the bottom of our pain, our sadness, our emptiness, which means we never find that rock-bottom place of the peace...

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

In her book Confessions of a Beginning Theologian , Elouise Renich Fraser discusses how crucial it has been to listen to her body throughout her personal and theological growth. My body, once...

There is not any thing, relating to men and characters, more surprising and unaccountable, than this partiality to themselves. . . . Hence it is that many men seem perfect strangers to their own chara...

Holy God, we realize that You know us more intimately than we know ourselves. We come before You now asking You to show us our sin, to make us aware of our failings, to open our eyes to our brokenness...

Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that ...

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

When we devote no time to the inner life, we lose the habit of soul. If we fail to acquaint ourselves with soul, we will remain strangers in our own lives.

The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I fyou look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God, you’ll be at rest.

We spend the whole of our whole lives watching ourselves. But when a man becomes meek he has finished/

We think our problem is with God, but remember, God is perfect. Our problem is really with ourselves.

To know oneself, is above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against the Truth, and not the other way around.

There is no way out of one’s inner life, so one had better get into it. On the inward and downward spiritual journey, the only way out is through.