Abby Johnson Quotes

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

The more we focus on what everyone else is doing wrong, the less energy we have to fix what we're doing wrong.

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.

The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.

It's easy for us to look at another country or another political party and say, 'Enough! Do better!'. It is a tougher conversation when the problem is in our own tent.

We can't create change until we recognize and check our own actions.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.

I have hurt my community. I have to look myself in the mirror and know that, and I have to own that in order to grow past that.

Of course there is a lot of things you can work on and change and all that, but first I think you should look at yourself before you actually start trying to find excuse in the other people, whether it's going to be coach, physio, family, or whoever else is on your side.