Quotes About Self

If your personality is negative, it means that you do not have the confidence in God and in yourself that is your birthright.

The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.

Knowing the Self, God is known.

Meditation is a way of slowing down so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment, where God lies waiting to grant you a deep experience of your eternal oneness with God.

If you start taking yourself more seriously than you do God then there's a problem.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God really. You're doing it for yourself, because that's what makes God happy. Amen?

I've worked so hard to just be my full self and God has just validated me in so many ways.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.

He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.

God is a fountain flowing into itself.

Theres not one good thought in me, apart from God. Thats the good news.

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

The depths of the self are the heights of God.

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am

Always try to see yourself through God's eyes.