24 Quotes by C. Terry Warner

When it comes to seeking a change of heart, our starting place must include our present situation, with the people we live with right here and now. It is with these very people that we must learn to forgo all taking of offense.

When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.

Our insensitivity as self-betrayers is best described not as attending to ourselves rather than to others, but rather as attending to others for our sake rather than for their sake.

A responsible step in loosening the grip of any lie we might be living is to ask ourselves, solemnly and seriously, this momentous question: "Might I be in the wrong?" What gives this question its power? The answer can be stated very simply: Just to ask the question seriously, even without answering it, is already to undergo a change of attitude.

Three aspects of the self betrayer's conduct always go together: accusing others, excusing oneself, and displaying oneself as a victim.

There is no better means of promoting another person's change of heart than allowing our own heart to be changed.

There is a vast difference between living according to one’s idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.

Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them.

Three aspects of the self betrayer’s conduct always go together: accusing others, excusing oneself, and displaying oneself as a victim.