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Quotes About Self

God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.
~ Eckhart Tolle
We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
~ John Calvin
God dwells within me. As me.
~ Julia Roberts
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
~ Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost
I have patterned myself after my father and God.
~ Adam Petty
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I am alone. There is no God where I am.
~ Aleister Crowley
There is only one you. God wanted you to be you. Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!
~ Charles R. Swindoll
The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind.
~ Theodore Roethke
God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.
~ Thomas Merton
It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.
~ Francis Chan
God knows what lives in me in place of me.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.
~ Glen Hansard
The real you is on the side of God against the false self
~ John Eldredge
God is what's good in me.
~ John Gunther
For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.
~ Rob Bell
While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I'm-A-God-Look-At-Me.
~ Alex Ferguson
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
Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self.
~ Andy Murray
There doesn't need to be a God for me.
~ Angelina Jolie
I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
We'll see who believes in me now. I am the Prankster God - I am killing me!
~ Bill Hicks