Quotes about Self
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
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination.
- CS Lewis
If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.
- Mother Teresa
It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
- Thomas Merton
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
- Timothy Keller
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.
- AW Tozer
When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.
- Alan Redpath