Quotes About Ourselves

The Scripture saith, "We are not sufficient of ourselves to think a good Thought." If so, then we cannot be chargeable with not thinking, and willing that which is good, but upon this Supposition, that there is always a supernatural Power within us, ready and able to help us to the Good which we cannot have from ourselves.

That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.

The extraterrestrials who are dubbed "aliens" are actually other aspects of ourselves. They are not "alien" at all. They are part of us.

making sense of everything is not an obligation or even a possibility. So much of what goes on in the world, so much of what goes on even inside ourselves, is beyond our grasp. Acceptance of mystery is an act not of resignation but humility.

Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.

In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.

All our clients know that we're there, we're steady, we do a good job, we earn a fair return for ourselves, which I think is critical.

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves.

Should' is my all time least favorite word. It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

Everyone wants the sun let shine, and the neighbor's grass is always greener, so it is better to mow it ourselves.

Change starts, proceeds, and ends with Jesus. We look to Jesus and away from ourselves.

To look to Christ to meet our perceived psychological needs is to Christianize our lusts. We are asking God to give us what we want, so we can feel better about ourselves, or so we can have more happiness, not holiness, in our lives.

As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.