Quotes about Self

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Since happiness is nothing else than the enjoyment of the Supreme Good, and the Supreme Good is above us, no one can enjoy happiness unless he rises above himself.

It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.

What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

I am just like a man who hath nothing to pay his thousands of debt; all that can be gotten of him, is to seize upon his person. Except Christ would seize upon myself, and make the readiest payment that can be of my heart and love to Himself, I have no other thing to give Him.

How you spend your time defines who you are.

Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.