A Quote by Jonathan Edwards

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

Jonathan Edwards

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Jonathan Edwards
American - Priest
October 5, 1703 - March 22, 1758

Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward.

David A. Bednar

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The Bruce Lee Action Museum will represent action in the sense that the word is not just used to mean action in the martial arts or films. It is really meant to be a much broader definition as far as taking action, my father's belief of self-actualization.

Shannon Lee

Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.

Caroline Myss

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

Iyanla Vanzant

There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that it is yet to be obtained. What is got afresh will also be lost. So it will be impermanent. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. So I say the Self is not reached. You are the Self; you are already That.

Ramana Maharshi

The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

Jo Coudert

An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Samuel Smiles

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

Richard Cushing

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

John Updike

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

David Brock

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

George Santayana

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

Quentin Crisp

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.

Michael Korda

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