Joseph Prince Quotes

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

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

Facts make you face stuff about yourself you'd rather not see.

What I realized was that CrossFit wasn't what defined me as a human being, it was the sacrifice that Christ made for me and all of us that defined who I was.

I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.

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.

To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.

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

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

Self knowledge is always bad news.