Quotes about Self
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
Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.
— Wayne Dyer
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
— Catherine of Siena
Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.
— CS Lewis
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.
— CS Lewis