Quotes about Self

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be

Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.

If you truly understood the holiness of God, you would have a proper attitude about yourself.

If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

Proverbs 23:7 reminds us, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (NLV). We

You're giving yourself too much credit, the only reason you have any grace (to give or receive) is through Christ.

On the other hand, when I change to a growth mind-set, I don't chain my identity to my insecurity.

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before.

We live in a day and time when our rights sometimes take precedence over our pursuit of righteousness, when we get caught in the rush of seeking self rather than seeking God.

The real you is on the side of God against the false self. Knowing this makes all the difference in the world. The man who wants to live valiantly will lose heart quickly if he believes that his heart is nothing but sin.

To put it bluntly, your flesh is a weasel, a poser, and a selfish pig. And your flesh is not you. Did you know that? Your flesh is not the real you.

The passage is not about trying to save your skin by ducking martyrdom or something like that. The word Christ uses for "life" is the word psyche—the word for our soul, our inner self, our heart. He says that the things we do to save our psyche, our self, those plans to save and protect our inner life—those are the things that will actually destroy us.