Quotes about Ego
Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.
- Andrew Murray
As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
- CS Lewis
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
- Max Lucado
The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.
- Robert Barron
The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.
- Wayne Dyer
God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
- Bede Griffiths
Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.
- St. John Chrysostom
God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.
- Tullian Tchividjian
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
- Martin Luther
The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.
- AW Tozer
It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.
- Francis Chan