Quotes About Ego

David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: "I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.

The best and the most talented in the pastoral ministry and in denominational hierarchies harm themselves and harm the church most through their unrestrained ego and unwillingness to step off the high places. Sexual sin gets the press, but ego sin kills the church.

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.

Il est difficile de parler de soi longtemps sans vanité.

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity. - My Own Life

is deeply sad when we use the greatest being of all as an instrument for our own smallness.

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

The source of the ego is God.

Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

There is only one of the two that can reside in our hearts, GOD or ego. If GOD is in ego is out.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.

When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.

Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God!