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Self Quotes by Oswald Chambers
- Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
- Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.†The surest sign that God is at work in his life is…
- Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having…
- I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all…
- If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other…
- It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between Christ and ourselves.
- A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he…
- Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
- Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden