Quotes about Self
Self turned to God is the glory of allowing the Creator to reveal Himself in us. Self turned away from God is the very darkness and fire of hell.
— Andrew Murray
Redemption is too often looked at from its negative side as deliverance from: its real glory is the positive element of being redeemed unto Himself.
— Andrew Murray
It is pride that made redemption needful; it is from our pride we need above everything to be redeemed.
— Andrew Murray
God wants us to seek for the Holy Spirit as a Spirit of power in our own heart and life to conquer self and cast out sin and work the blessed and beautiful image of Jesus into us.
— Andrew Murray
True humility comes when, in the, light of God, we have seen ourselves to be nothing, have consented to part with and cast away self, to let God be all.
— Andrew Murray
And according to what we have of God will be our real humility, because humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.
— Andrew Murray
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
— Samuel Johnson
From the beginning God created us with that radical freedom: to choose him, or to choose ourselves instead.
— Scott Hahn
If you believe in the Gospel what you like, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
— John Bevere
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
— John Calvin
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
— John Donne
Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.
— Lynn Austin