Quotes about Self
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
— St. Augustine
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are!
— Leonard Ravenhill
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
— Charles Spurgeon
The more conscious of God's presence the more I feel like being myself, the less conscious of His presence, the more I feel I need to prove myself.
— RT Kendall
Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.
— Andrew Murray
You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.
— Matt Chandler
Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.
— AW Tozer
As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
— CS Lewis
Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.
— AW Tozer
I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.
— St. Basil