561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

There are some people who through hurts do not feel they are good enough and this is a destroyer of their self-images. As a true believer of your dream, you need to see yourself as God sees you. God sees you as his own handiwork and that is pretty great to carry you through!

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.