John Calvin Quotes

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

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

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

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this truly is. Unfortunately, contemporary men and women simply do not value self-knowledge in the same way that all preceding generations have. For us technocratic knowledge reigns supreme. Even when we pursue self-knowledge, we all too often reduce it to a hedonistic search for personal peace and prosperity. How poor we are! Even the pagan philosophers were wiser than this generation. They knew that an unexamined life was not worth living.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.

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

Self knowledge is always bad news.

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

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

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 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.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!