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I wish I could say that everything I do is for God's glory but I can't. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus' blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
- Tullian Tchividjian
A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'
- Marianne Williamson
The deep, intimate connection I am searching for is within me. I am all that I am looking for. I am love. All is well.
- Louise Hay
We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.
- St. Augustine
Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.
- St. Augustine
For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to another. If my heart does not first belong to me, how can I give it to another?
- Thomas Merton
God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God?
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.
- Max Lucado
Jesus did not enter the world to help us save ourselves. He entered the world to save us from ourselves.
- Max Lucado
If you aren't you, we don't get you.
- Max Lucado
They also told me how I got the name "My." After Bailey learned definitely that I was his sister, he refused to call me Marguerite, but rather addressed me each time as "Mya Sister," and in later more articulate years, after the need for brevity had shortened the appellation to "My," it was elaborated into "Maya.
- Maya Angelou
We are sa blind as we want to be
- Maya Angelou