Quotes about Ego

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness and remember your strength.

Self is the soul minus God.

In order to pray I have to be paying more attention to God than to what people are saying to me; to God than to my clamoring ego. Usually, for that to happen there must be a deliberate withdrawal from the noise of the day, a disciplined detachment from the insatiable self.

I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not "mine," but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.—Galatians 2:20

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'

The sinful nature is all about self: pleasing self, promoting self, preserving self. Sin is selfish.