Quotes about Self
I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.
— Edith Wharton
The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.
— AW Tozer
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
— St. Augustine
I wish I could say that everything I do is for God's glory but I can't. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus' blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
— Tullian Tchividjian
A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'
— Marianne Williamson
The deep, intimate connection I am searching for is within me. I am all that I am looking for. I am love. All is well.
— Louise Hay
We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.
— St. Augustine
Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.
— St. Augustine
For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to another. If my heart does not first belong to me, how can I give it to another?
— Thomas Merton
God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God?
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.
— Max Lucado