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Quotes About Self

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.
~ Saint Angela of Foligno
Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'
~ John Henrik Clarke
So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.
~ Morgan Freeman
What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.
~ Thomas Goodwin
As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
~ C. S. Lewis
Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The source of the ego is God.
~ Ramana Maharshi
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
There is only one of the two that can reside in our hearts, GOD or ego. If GOD is in ego is out.
~ A. R. Rahman
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
~ John of the Cross
I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.
~ Richard Rohr
When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.
~ Saint Basil
Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
~ Lin Yutang
Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.
~ Stephen Charnock
We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance.
~ Jason Upton
I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.
~ Indra Devi
Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
~ Bill Vaughan
Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Humility begins with seeing who God is, seeing yourself compared to God, and then seeing yourself as God sees you.
~ Steven J Lawson
You are a little god on earth running around.
~ Benny Hinn
We're God too but we don't realise it.
~ George Harrison
If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.
~ Jerry Fodor