Quotes about Self

We are never more completely ourselves than when we make that decision to trust in God.

Why doesn't God reveal Himself to you? He cannot. It is not that He will not, but He cannot, because you are in the way as long as you won't abandon yourself to Him in total surrender.

Do you have even the slightest reliance on anything or anyone other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural quality within you, or on any particular set of circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any manner whatsoever regarding this new proposal or plan which God has placed before you? Will you examine yourself by asking these probing questions?

Determinedly take no one seriously but God, and the first person you find you have to leave severely alone as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.

The real test of spiritual focus is being able to bring your thoughts and imagination under control. Is your mind focused on the face of an idol? Is the idol yourself? Is it your work?

Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.

as long as our eyes are focused on our own personal holiness, we will never even get close to the full reality of redemption.

Picking Another Channel "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.

It's not right to spend money you don't have to perpetuate a lie about who you are.

The greatest idol I will never truly remove is self.

Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.

The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.