Quotes About Self

Flesh is the Bible's word for unperfected human nature. Leaving off the "h" and spelling it in reverse, we have the word self. Flesh is the self-life: it is what we are when we are left to our own devices.

When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self—it is diminished to a mere community center.

Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project.

In this age of humanism, man is seduced by society with the lie that he can become his own god . . . the New Age movement is polluted with self and it will never bow before God—at least not until Christ returns.

Take care of your soul—your inner self—by feeding on the Word of God and letting His Spirit transform you from within.

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

The sin of self is a deadly sin.

The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.

Instead of giving God His rightful place at the center of our lives, we have substituted the "god" of Self. Only Christ can change our hearts—and through us begin to change our world.

Salvation is not just repairing the original self. It is a new self created of God in righteousness and true holiness.

Worldliness is an inner attitude that puts self at the center of life instead of God.

The focus on self has led our society into a fascination with pleasure, emotional and sexual stimulation, and "personal fulfillment." America's compulsion for "maximum personhood" is evidenced everywhere.

Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.

We need to know what the Bible teaches about right and wrong. Every day we are battered by messages—from the media, advertising, entertainment, celebrities, even our friends—with one underlying theme: "Live for yourself.

To begin a transformation you must peel back the layers and go to your core.

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

Scandal, like other Virtues, is in part its own Reward, as it gives us the Satisfaction of making our selves appear better than others, or others no better than ourselves. My

The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

All I can be is me- whoever that is.

Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.

Man is a universe within himself.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.