Quotes about Self
Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.
- Andrew Murray
You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.
- Matt Chandler
Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.
- AW Tozer
As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
- CS Lewis
Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.
- AW Tozer
I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.
- St. Basil
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.
- Francis Chan
You must go to God's Word to know what is true about yourself.
- Beth Moore
Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.
- Martin Luther