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Ego Quotes by Richard Rohr
- The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status…
- In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not…
- We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious…
- Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement…
- Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend…
- The ego hates losing – even to God.
More Ego Quotes
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball
- We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this… — Afrika Bambaataa
- A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to… — Roseanne Barr
- The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by. — David Beckham
- If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett
- But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They… — Anna Benson
- At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant
- You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than… — Jello Biafra
- Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno