Quotes about Self-discovery
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
- Teresa of Avila
God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.
- Beth Moore
God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
- David Platt
It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.
- Joel Osteen
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
- Joel Osteen
We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.
- Beth Moore
We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
- Thomas Merton
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.
- Rob Bell
When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
- Johannes Tauler
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.
- Thomas Merton