Quotes about Ourselves
Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.
- Timothy Keller
Each of us faces a choice every moment of every day. When we choose God—his laws, his wills, and his way—we choose life. And when we choose ourselves—our laws, our wills, our way—we choose death.
- Scott Hahn
We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
- Joseph Campbell
Change starts, proceeds, and ends with Jesus. We look to Jesus and away from ourselves.
- Edward Welch
To look to Christ to meet our perceived psychological needs is to Christianize our lusts. We are asking God to give us what we want, so we can feel better about ourselves, or so we can have more happiness, not holiness, in our lives.
- Edward Welch
The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.
- John Perkins
There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.
- Richard Paul Evans
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Necessity, like electricity, Is in ourselves and all things, and no more Without us than within us; and we live, We of this mortal mixture, in the same law As the pure colorless intelligence Which dwells in Heaven, and the dead Hadean shades.
- Philip James Bailey
We are the only ones who can make decisions for ourselves about how we will handle the situations that arise in our lives. Life is not likely to get any easier, but our approach to life can change and that will make it easier.
- Joyce Meyer
God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature.
- TB Joshua
God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain
- Paul Washer