As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“When we quit playing Hokey Pokey with God and keep our whole self in, His blessings pursue us!” — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“You’ve lost faith in yourself? Isn’t that rich? A god who’s become a self-atheist!” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will. — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the Bible makes any religious sense unless we are people of faith who believe that God's own self speaks to… — Fleming Rutledge Copy Share Image
A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“It is a grave responsibility that a man takes upon himself when he seeks to edit out of God's self-revelation such features… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
If only he would not pity us so much, Weaken our fate, relieve us ofwoe both great And small, a constant fellow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
James says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Man, by the apostacy, is become a most disordered and rebellious creature, opposing his Maker, as the First Cause, by self-dependence; as… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Be natural; forget yourself; be so absorbed in what you are doing and in the realisation of the presence of God, and… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Because the sacred fire that lights all nature liveliest of all in its own image glows. All these prerogatives the human creature… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies. — John H Aughey Copy Share Image
Without Self-confidence there cannot be God. So, first there must be Self-confidence and love of God. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
