Quotes About Self

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

Our souls - our invisible selves - bear the mark of God Himself. We're like God in that we bear His image.

And I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.

I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.

You're never going to please everyone - you might as well be who God made you to be.

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believe in God. I told you of course I do - I've always had a strong sense of self

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

If God made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God... Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.

What you are is God's gift to you. What you can become is your gift to Him.

If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic.

Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action.

I am who I am', said God to Moses regarding His name, because none was worth to be compared to His godhead.

Know your real Self, beyond who you think you are.

God is but a supernatural spirit. He resides dormant in you, until you awaken to liberate yourself from this ignorance that you are body and mind.