Quotes about Self

When God spreads his glory, he is not seeking to add to himself, rather, he is just being himself.

Of all kinds of knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.

The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one's self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us... At the end of the day I can only ask God to give a merciful judgement on today and all its decisions. It is now in his hand.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

I have my relationship with God and myself, and that's what matters to me. I really don't care what most people think.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

If I eliminate everything, how will I exist?

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour—the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

Hatred is in my brain, not in my stomach or my skin. It can't be removed like a rash or an ache. Didn't I hate you as well as love you? And don't I hate myself?