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Quotes About Self

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
~ Plotinus
You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.
~ PZ Myers
A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
~ Martin Luther
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
~ James Mark Baldwin
The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.
~ Kumail Nanjiani
Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.
~ Brandon Bays
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
~ Dogen
Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.
~ Carlos Mencia
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
~ William James
I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.
~ Muhammad Ali
Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.
~ Philip Schaff
Religion is the highest vanity.
~ Christian Friedrich Hebbel
You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.
~ Swami Vivekananda
You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.
~ Abhijit Naskar
We are our own gods.
~ Zeena Schreck
God created man and then woman but the atheist created himself.
~ Anonymous
There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.
~ Greg Egan
I am a religious man! The only thing is, that in my religion, I am the God!
~ Tunk