"As a rule the individual is so unconscious that he altogether fails to see his own potentials for decision. Instead he is constantly and anxiously looking around for external rules and regulations which can guide him in his perplexity. Aside from general human inadequacy, a good deal of the blame for this rests with education, which promulgates the old generalisations and says nothing about the secrets of private experience. Thus, every effort is made to teach idealistic beliefs or conduct which people know in their hearts they can never live up to, and such ideals are preached by officials who know that they themselves have never lived up to these high standards and never will. What is more, nobody ever questions the value of this kind
of teaching."
Memories, Dreams and Reflections, by Carl Jung
“They have not known, and they do not understand; In darkness they keep walking about; All the foundations of the earth are made to totter.
I myself have said, '
You are gods, And all of you are sons of the Most High.
Psalms 82:5
Go to the ant, you lazy one; see its ways and become wise. Although it has no commander, officer or ruler, it prepares its food even in the summer; it has gathered its food supplies even in the harvest. How long, you lazy one, will you keep lying down? When will you rise up from your sleep? A little more sleep, a little more slumbering, a little more folding of the hands when lying down, and your poverty will certainly come.
Proverbs 6.6
Concerning him we have much to say and hard to be explained, since you have become dull in your hearing. For, indeed, although you ought to be teachers in view of the time, you again need someone to teach you from the beginning the elementary things of the sacred pronouncements of God; and you such as need milk, not solid food. For everyone that partakes of milk is unaquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to mature people, to those who through use have their perceptive powers trained to distinguish both right and wrong.
Hebrews 5.11
For this is the covernant that I shall covenant with the land after those days,' says God. I will put my Laws in their mind, and in their hearts I shall write them. And I will become their God, and they themselves will become my people. And they will by no means teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying: "Know God!" For they will all know me, from the least one to the greatest one of them.
Hebrews 8.10
Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, `Look, the kingdom is in heaven,' then the birds of heaven will precede you. If they say to you, `It is in the sea,' then the fish will proceed you. Rather the kingdom is inside you and is outside you.
"When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are sons of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty, and you are that poverty."
Jesus said, "One who knows all but is lacking in oneself is utterly lacking."
Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you, if you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
Does not Jesus say, "Whoever has found oneself, of that one the world is not worthy"?
For the thing we boast of is this, to which our conscience bears witness, that with holiness and Godly sincerity, not with fleshy wisdom but with God's undeserved kindness, we have conducted ourselves in the world, but more especially toward you. For we are not writing you things except those which you well know or also recognize; and I hope you will continue to recognize to the end, just as you have also recognized, to an extent, that we are a cause for you to boast, just as you will also be on the day of our Lord Jesus. He has also put his seal upon us and has given us the token of what is to come, that is, the spirit in our hearts.
2Corinthians 1.12
I do rejoice greatly in the Lord that now at last you have revived your thinking on my behalf, to which you were really giving thought, but you lacked opportunity. Not that I am speaking in regard to being in want, for I have learned, in whatever circumstances I am, to be self-sufficient
Philippians 4.10
Counsel in the heart of a man is as deep waters, but the man of discernment is one that will draw it up.
Proverbs 20.5
Train up a boy according to the way for him; even when he grows old he will not turn aside from it.
Proverbs 22.6
There are four things that are the smallest of the earth, but they are instinctively wise: the ants are a people not strong, and yet in summer they prepare their food; the rock badgers are a people not mighty, and yet upon a crag is where they put their house; the locusts have no king, and yet they go forth all of them divided into groups; the gecko lizard takes hold with its hands and it is in the grand palace of a king.
Proverbs 30.24
Why do you not judge also for yourselves what is righteous?
Luke 12:57
Felix sent for Paul and listened to him on the belief in Jesus Christ. But as he talked about righteousness and self control and the judgment to come.
Acts 24.24
For whenever people of the nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law, these people, although not having law, are a law to themselves. They are the very ones who demonstrate the matter of the law to be written in their hearts, while their conscience is bearing witness with them and, between their own thoughts, they are being accused or even excused.
Romans 2:12
Do you not know that if you keep on presenting yourselves to anyone as slaves to obey him, you are slaves of him because you obey him, either of sin with death in view or of obedience with righteousness in view? But thanks to God that you were the slaves of sin but you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were handed over. Yes, since you were free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.
Romans 6.15
