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Self Quotes by Pope Francis
- Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich…
- Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self esteem. That means, 'I feel so low that instead of picking myself up, I have to…
- These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.
- At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.
- Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is the…
- "Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love and questions us…
- We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referentia l church. It's true that when you get out into the street, as happens to…
- Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.
- If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from…
- No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves…
- Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.
- An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from…
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
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster