Quotes about Self

Though we are not Almighty God Himself, nevertheless, we are now divine.

To think of myself as a body, to be conscious of myself as a body, is to be conscious of other people's consciousness.

Memory is the 'self', because it is my presence to myself, the way in which I constitute myself and understand myself as a subject with a continuous history of experience.

So baptism means being with Jesus 'in the depths': the depths of human need, including the depths of our own selves in their need — but also in the depths of God's love; in the depths where the Spirit is re-creating and refreshing human life as God meant it to be.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

Once you label me you negate me.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.

So it is that we have more respect for what our neighbours will think of us than we have for ourselves.

But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

The ambitious supposeth another man's act, praise and applause, to be his own happiness; the voluptuous his own sense and feeling; but he that is wise, his own action.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.