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Often self-love is replaced with self- loathing, compounded by beating ourselves up. We become experts at putting ourselves down, judging ourselves, and finding fault. This creates deep shame that says "I am a mistake" instead of saying "I made a mistake. -- David W. Earle
Die to self: die to criticism, die to praise. -- Lee Roberson
Conscious rebukes from doing wrong -- Sunday Adelaja
When we don't put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions. -- Zeena Schreck
You are condemn your by thoughts. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace. -- Randy Alcorn
Guilt is really self- condemnation and self-invalidation of our worth and value as a human being. -- David R. Hawkins
Guilt is a self-indulgence. -- Marian Keyes
The self is hateful. -- Blaise Pascal
Self-righteousness is always self-condemnatory. And self-righteousness is the preserve of the moralist. -- Timothy Keller
Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage. -- Jeremy Collier
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. -- William Cowper
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
For what you do to others, you do to yourself. -- Eckhart Tolle
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. -- Eric Hoffer
Guilt is useless. The world torments us, and we react by tormenting ourselves. I wonder how we can ever have such a low opinion of ourselves that we join in. -- Philip K. Dick
The sweetness of self-denial and self-control, -- Louisa May Alcott
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self. -- Charles Horton Cooley
Low self esteem results when the inner critic prevails. -- Catherine Cardinal
Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good. -- Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
Those are not the tears of repentance! ... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. -- George Macdonald
Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt. -- Dennis E. Adonis
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. -- Walter Savage Landor
unconscious self-love -- David Eagleman
If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out. -- Tim Allen
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful
because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. -- Aldous Huxley
Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation. -- Mason Cooley
Do not carry the burden of self-judgment. You are forgiven and pardoned -- Sunday Adelaja
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. -- Oscar Wilde
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism. -- G.k. Chesterton
If you go on condemning, your condemnation shows that somewhere there is a wound, and you are feeling jealous - because without jealousy there can be no condemnation. You condemn people because somehow, somewhere, unconsciously you feel they are enjoying themselves and you have missed. -- Rajneesh
In the life of every believer, there is conformity to Christ's suffering, a participation in Christ that inevitably includes the elements of self-denial, shame, and loss. -- Cornelis P. Venema
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God. -- Paul Tournier
Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity. -- Mason Cooley
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. -- Baruch Spinoza
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures? -- Michael Connelly
For so blindly do we all rush in the direction of self-love, that every one thinks he has a good reason for exalting himself and despising all others in comparison. -- John Calvin
God endorses your dissatisfaction with the world's self-concept package: Large, with a side of self-doubt and a sprinkle of guilt. -- Anonymous
The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit. -- Michael Foley
What makes a person hate themselves?"
"Cowardice, perhaps. Or the eternal fear of being wrong, of not doing what others expect. A few moments ago I was happy, I forgot I was under the sentence of death; then when I remembered the situation I'm in, I felt frightened. -- Paulo Coelho
Forgiveness of self is all forgivenesses starts -- Neale Donald Walsch
No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back. -- Andre Aciman
A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair. -- Marty Rubin
Self-justification, that was the danger
the exhilerating exercise of explaining why my ways are God's ways after all. -- Hugh Nibley
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes. -- John Barth
There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation. -- Charles Spurgeon
Self Importance is the worst sin a person can get into -- Rajesh Nanoo
Self-consciousness is hell. -- Marty Rubin
My father told us:
The worst sin is Feeling Sorry for Yourself. -- Mariam Cheshire
Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive. -- John Bradshaw
The pain of dwelling on the wrongs done to us by other people far exceeds the little bit of pleasure we derive from condemning others for their guilt. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God. -- Philip Zaleski
Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake, but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us, but specifically to self-sacrifice: not to unselfing ourselves, but to unselfishing ourselves. -- Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect. -- Francis De Sales
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement. -- Dag Hammarskjold
So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop. -- Daniel Keyes
If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it. -- Mordecai
The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that. -- Karleen Koen
Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim. -- Lz Granderson
Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism. -- Marvin J. Ashton
When One judges another, they unconsciously allow themselves to be judged. -- Steven Farmer
You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness. -- Eric Hoffer
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. -- Henri Nouwen
Self pride hinders the soul from flourishing, -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge. -- J.c. Ryle
To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them -- A.w. Tozer
Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves. -- Mike Norton
The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it's violation of the soul. -- Rachel Abbott
If you never condemned you would never need to forgive. -- Anthony De Mello
Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man. -- Charles Simmons
self-deprecatory, to make light of their own situation by -- Tom Shroder
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes. -- Aidan Chambers
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise. -- Augustine Of Hippo
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects. -- Saint Basil
On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone. -- Marcus Aurelius
The feelings of guilt takes away self-confidence, reduces self-esteem welcomes fear, confusion, disappointment, depression etc. -- Sunday Adelaja
I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others. -- Tryon Edwards
Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses. -- Paulo Coelho
There is nothing so high as renunciation of self. -- Swami Vivekananda
Self-denial is spiritual. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
[L]et us talk about the unholy vice of self-esteem, the beginning and completion of the passions; and let us talk briefly, for to undertake an exhaustive discussion would be to act like someone who inquires into the weight of the winds. -- John Climacus
Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ? -- Anne Rice
Remorse is the pain of sin. -- Theodore Parker
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. -- Marcus Aurelius
When our instinctual life is shamed, the natural core of our life is bound up. It's like an acorn going through excruciating agony for becoming an oak, or a flower feeling ashamed for blossoming. -- John Bradshaw
[D]on't cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go ... Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90) -- Stephen Levine
Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.
'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom -- Joseph Goldstein
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. -- Tryon Edwards
Half the time I hate myself for all the things I've done ... But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair. -- E. Lockhart
We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation. -- Vance Havner
The complex known as feelings of guilt does not let us accept ourselves the way we are created -- Sunday Adelaja
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. -- Tullian Tchividjian
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. -- V.s. Pritchett
Judging yourself is just as bad as judging someone else. Our thoughts are a powerful force, and what you pay attention to you empower. Judging yourself only serves to strengthen your shortcomings. -- Jon Gabriel
Self-forgiveness comes when we realize that if God has forgiven us, we needn't remain angry with ourselves, needn't hate ourselves any longer. God will use it all for good. -- Robert Morgan
They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame. -- William Shakespeare
Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience. -- Joshua L. Liebman
