Self-love Quotes

       CHRISTIAN QUOTES ON Self-love. Part of a large selection of Christian quotes and sayings in a variety of topics by famous people, authors, theologians, pastors, preachers, teachers, and other notable Christians.

It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them.     Author: Francois Fenelon Supreme and abiding self-love is a very dwarfish affection, but a giant evil.     Author: Richard Cecil Oh, thrice fools are we, who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle, know not that there is a kingdom before them; then, let our Lord's sweet hand square us, and hammer us, and strike off the knots of pride, self-love, and world-worship, and infidelity, that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.     Author: Samuel Rutherford God's people must not love their soul life even to the point of death. Unless self-love or self-pity is committed to the cross they shall surely be defeated by the adversary.     Author: Watchman Nee Self-pity, self-love, fear of suffering, withdrawal from the cross: these are some of the manifestations of the soul life, for its prime motivation is the self-preservation. It is exceedingly reluctant to endure any loss.     Author: Watchman Nee The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.     Author: A.W. Tozer The pampering of the flesh, is the quenching of God's spirit.     Author: Thomas Watson Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.     Author: Amy Carmichael God, harden me against myself!     Author: Amy Carmichael There is an old joke that went around - it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment.     Author: Alistair Begg We have within us a self that has its poison from Satan--from hell--and yet we cherish and nourish it. What do we not do to please self and nourish self--and we make the devil within us strong. ... Look at your own life. What are the works of hell? They are chiefly these three: self-will, self-trust, and self-exaltation.     Author: Andrew Murray He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.     Author: B.B. Warfield