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Self Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be…
- There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says,…
- Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.
- True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
- It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.
- When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice…
- If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
- The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to…
- The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that…
- The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.
- For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.
- Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are…
- Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work:…
- The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will…
- I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at…
- Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.
- There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old,…
- A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
- Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
- All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.
More Self Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
- Forgive yourself and get over 'self hatred.' In life, everybody screws up I mean everybody. Some people blame themselves for stuff, when… — Pacifiersucker