Quotes about Ego

Pride is the archenemy of ministry.

Our job, as souls on this mortal journey, is to shift the seat of our identity from the lower realm to the upper, from the ego to the Self. Art

Give the act to me. Purged of hope and ego, Fix your attention on the soul. Act and do for me.

Here's what I think. I think angels make their home in the Self, while Resistance has its seat in the Ego. The fight is between the two. The Self wishes to create, to evolve. The Ego likes things just the way they are.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people.

The sin of self is a deadly sin.

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

The cult of self has become an addiction—feeding off the ego of self-glorification. The word cult encompasses many movements and ideas, but simply put, it describes a culture of alternative beliefs, fads, and trends, and tampers with just enough truth to knock many off balance.

Any Christian whose interest is directed toward himself is worldly.