Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

I'd be lying to you if I said I had not done some soul searching.

The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.