Quotes about Self

in the heart of a sinner, awe of God is very quickly replaced by awe of self.

Sinners tend to move away from defining themselves in relationship to their Creator and begin defining themselves in relationship to the creation.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

The neurotic is aware of the danger of a situation in which his unrealistic self-affirmation is broken down and no realistic self-affirmation takes its place.

No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation.

Man creates what he is.

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?

He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”