Quotes About Self-awareness

Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God's grace appears to you.

I am a girl without game. I'm not interested in games. I think that, if you are someone who playing hard to get comes naturally to, go with God and do that.

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even.

I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

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.

A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

Be true to yourself, know that your are more than your face and body, and keep God first.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.