Quotes About Self

I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

Who you are is not your name or your family. Who you are is more essential than that; it comes from God. And what you make of yourself, that is what you give back to God.

Without faith, a man's hope is in nothing but himself. And sooner or later, he will let himself down. But God will never let us down.

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

As I actualize, I uncover.

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.

We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!

The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels.

Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Only now have you lived long enough to know the child that you shall always remain.

Whatever there is about human identity that can be objectively known, measured, predicted, observed, whether by the Myers-Briggs, the Enneagram, the tax man, or the omniscient squint of your most insightful aunt, there is a foundational core of what we might as well call identity that remains hidden from scrutiny's grip and somehow utterly caught up in God, "in whom we live and move and have our being," in whom our very self is immersed.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Thy kingdom come, that Thou rule us, and not: we ourselves," for there is nothing more perilous in us than our reason and will.

It is not our work, but God's gift, that we now hate ourselves and our sinful lusts and follow after love.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Faith is Individual

"I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

Money, success, integration into a solid, recognised world - all these factors contribute to an economy of the self. There is no longer any need to think about your needs, your mood, your behaviour, your friends, or your life, no need to understand or to look any further: the world you're in provides all that right away.

My personality is a luxury that's costing me too dearly.

Only in very special individuals is there a sense of a past continuous self.