Quotes about Self-image

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

I have never had skinny arms.

The people of this world make a god for themselves in their own image, and in doing so they make God far, far, far, too small.

See with lamps on, Christy. Eyes wide open. See yourself as beautiful. The

I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.

What each man is in Your eyes, thus he is, and no more.

Wrong thinking about God and people often begins with a debased image of ourselves.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

This God expects people to be perfect and to be in perpetual control of their feelings and thoughts. When broken people with this concept of God fail—as inevitably they must—they usually expect punishment. So they persevere in religious practices as they struggle to maintain a hollow image of a perfect self. The struggle itself is exhausting. The legalists can never live up to the expectations they project on God.

As Blaise Pascal wrote, "God made man in his own image and man returned the compliment." Thus, if we feel hateful toward ourselves, we assume that God feels hateful toward us.

How much of our energy goes into defining ourselves by deciding "I am what I do," "I am what others say about me," or "I am what I have"? When that's the case, life often follows a repetitive up-and-down motion.

You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.