Quotes about Projection
The "Nature Psalms" ... This understanding, and seeing, and hearing, is possible only ... in the enlightening of the eyes by the salvation of God ... But this seeing and hearing is not a projection of the believing subject, but an actual finding and seeing, and hearing! Here nothing is 'read into', but is only an understanding of the reality of revelation.
- GC Berkouwer
Our tendency is to project out of our own autobiographies what we think other people want or need.
- Stephen Covey
Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
- Stephen Covey
The less good stuff we find in ourselves, the more we seek it in others.
- Melody Beattie
In my experience, when we project a quality or virtue onto another human being, we ourselves almost always already possess that quality, but we're afraid to embrace (and to live) that truth.
- Steven Pressfield
Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and love that keeps no score of wrongs. Quit projecting onto Me your own feelings about yourself. At this moment your life is a bruised reed and I will not crush it, a smoldering wick and I will not quench it. You are in a safe place." Brennan Manning. Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
- Brennan Manning
Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others.
- Henri Nouwen
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
- Elbert Hubbard
In divorce cases, this is called "mental torture" or "domination." Really, it is egocentricity, in which one ego loves itself in the other ego. The I is projected into the Thou and is loved in the Thou. The Thou is not really loved as a person; it is only used as a means to the pleasure of the I. As soon as the other ceases to exhilarate, the so-called love ceases.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
told Reginald what I had learned: that in order to get something you had to look as though you already had something.
- Malcolm X
She liked to keep only the bright side of herself turned towards him. She liked to shine.
- Margaret Atwood
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott