Quotes about Self

Many persons seek community because they are afraid of loneliness...those who take refuge in community while fleeing from themselves are misuing it to indulge in empty talk and distraction, no matter how spiritual this idle talk and distraction may appear...it is precisely such misuse of community that creates deadly isolation of human beings.

That is what we mean by cheap grace, the grace which amounts to the justification of sin without the justification of the repentant sinner who departs from sin and from whom sin departs. Cheap grace is not the kind of forgiveness of sin which frees us from the toils of sin.

WHO AM I?2 Who am I? They often tell me I stepped from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a Squire from his country house.

Man at his origin knows only one thing: God. It is only in the unity of his knowledge of God that he knows of other men, of things, and of himself. He knows all things only in God, and God in all things. The knowledge of good and evil shows that he is no longer at one with this origin.

Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out.

She said that nothing is done to oneself that one does not accept and that if I love someone it would take it all away. What