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Quotes About Self-discovery

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.
~ Meher Baba
Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.
~ Carrie Prejean
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
Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.
~ William H. Macy
This is why I am calling you to See as God Sees every moment, for it is the only way to release the world you thought was there, in favor of a world that reflects who you really are.
~ James F. Twyman
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.
~ Malala Yousafzai
You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you.
~ Christine Ebersole
Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.
~ Jenny Lawson
God dwells within me. As me.
~ Julia Roberts
God created you this way. You're you. I think everyone should be their own individualized person.
~ Karrueche Tran
Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
~ Blaise Pascal
Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves.
~ James Redfield
God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.
~ Joyce Meyer
Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
~ Rumi
We can never know who or what we are until we know at least something of what God is.
~ A.W. Tozer
Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.
~ Amy Ray
I'm trying my best to sound like me rather than trying my best to write hits or praying to God that people respond. I've arrived in a very healthy place and it feels great!
~ Andrew Ripp
Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.
~ Criss Jami
Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
~ John Ruskin
God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.
~ Sylvia Plath
Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid." "Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish.
~ Tessa Dare
To the God in myself is probably the most honest answer. I think everybody has a divine destiny.
~ Van Jones
My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
~ Vera Farmiga