“Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein as granting authority to others. It might as well be saying, 'Perhaps… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is… — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
“Adam and Eve had first-hand empirical evidence of God’s existence. He walked in the Garden with them. Their problem was that God… — Ray A Copy Share Image
[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
“Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein as granting authority to others: It is basically saying, 'Maybe I need… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Happiness is your True Nature. Within you is Unimaginable Beauty. Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment. Through the clear… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Those who have overcome self-will and become instruments to do God's work can accomplish tasks which are seemingly impossible, but they experience… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities. ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There is a higher more powerful part of you. Your higher self will come through your intuition, coincidences and synchronicity of all… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage!” — Bayode Ojo Copy Share Image
“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat just one of the pieces.” — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them. — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You can find God if you will only seek - by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly to some, the idea of giving so much love to self will seem very cold, hard and unmerciful. Still this matter… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid… — Plato Copy Share Image
One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator.… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When the devil looks at a man who sincerely desires not to sin, he is not so unintelligent as to suggest to… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
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