Quotes about Self

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw." In that sense, he observed, "our immediate family is a part of ourselves. Our father and mother, our wife and babes, are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. When they die, a part of our very selves is gone.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.

Sin is: in despair not wanting to be oneself before God.

Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family and friends. Only thus is he truly himself. If in all this relativity he tries to be the absolute, then he becomes ridiculous.

However, a self, every instant it exists, is in process of becoming, for the self [potentially] does not actually exist, it is only that which it is to become. In so far as the self does not become itself, it is not its own self; but not to be one's own self is despair.

for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upon God. Upon

Algo de un rey se encuentra en mi ser; pero tú no puedes siquiera imaginar cuál es mi reino.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.

greatness of that with which he strove. For he who strove with the world became great by overcoming the world, and he who strove with himself became great by overcoming himself, but he who strove with God became greater than all.

he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself he who loves God believingly reflects upon God.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.