Quotes about Self-discovery
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.
— Rob Bell
When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
— Johannes Tauler
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.
— Thomas Merton
We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God.
— Beth Moore
God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.
— Joyce Meyer
Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.
— Desmond Tutu
But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.
— John Lennon
God will never help us be anyone other than ourselves.
— Joyce Meyer
God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else.
— Joyce Meyer
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
— Mortimer Adler
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.
— Gloria Steinem