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“If we believe that the rational for betraying God could ever justify the betrayal itself, we have shown that we possess the ability to betray anything, including ourselves.”

Self God Betrayal Denial Rejection Justify Betray Justification Ourselves

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Dear God, save me from the very ‘me’ that I am unable to save myself from.”

Self God Christian Jesus Salvation Help Me Save Myself

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“If only we could catch even the barest glimpse of our true capacity we would be stunned at the potential that lay there. Then the first monumental question would become, are we daring enough to unearth it; with the second being, are we brave enough to unleash it?”

Self Ability Identity Capacity Brave Gifts Talents Abilities

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“Freedom from what?” we ask. How about ourselves, because everything is a distant second after that.”

Self Freedom Personal Growth Liberation Second Place Self Sabotage Second

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“If you don’t stop to take in the beauty around you, you will likewise miss the beauty within you.”

Self Beauty Vision Awareness Stop Observe Pause Revel

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“Our true selves accepted, cultivated, and unleashed is immense. But what is infinitely greater than all of these is the loss that will occur if none of these happen.”

Self Loss Ability Confidence Potential Immense Possibilities Abilities Unleash Cultivated

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“Don’t imagine yourself as anything other than yourself, for to refuse to do so is to ensure that you will always be less than you imagined yourself.”

Self Identity Personality Self Awareness Personhood True To Self

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“Sometimes the distance between ‘who we are’ verses ‘who we’ve become’ is so vast that neither of them can see the other. And in time, each eventually begins to doubt the existence of the other.”

Self Existence Doubt Identity Personality Distance Person Personhood

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“In declaring that there is no God we become our own gods, for the absence of a God does not eliminate our need of one.”

Self God Faith Belief Selfish Altars False Gods

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“If you’re not all that fond of the image in the mirror, don’t get rid of the mirror. Rather, get rid of the people that shaped what you’re seeing in the mirror.”

Self Self Esteem Identity Personality Reflection Friendships Self Image Mirror

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“Our greatest enemy is devious enough to tell us that we are our greatest asset, and that the investment of the whole of ourselves into the whole of ourselves represents the whole of our life. But what the person in the mirror is not telling you is what kind of ‘hole’ that will actually dig.”

Self God Christian Jesus Selfish Narcissistic Self Destruction Ego Centric

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“How big we are ‘not’ is evidenced when we stand face-to-face with everything else, including ourselves.”

Self God Christian Power Self Esteem Size Self Confidence Powerless Small Large

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“It’s not enough to watch the great people in our lives and wish ourselves to be like them. Rather, it’s realizing that we need to wish ourselves to be the best version of us. For then, we will be like the people we’ve been watching.”

Self Wish Growth Greatness Development Maturity Possibilities Self Actualization

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“What are we actually saving ourselves from, other than the failed notion that we can save ourselves?”

Self Salvation Notion Foolish Deception Rescue Idea Self Centered Save Failed

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“What we ‘need’ tells us who we are. What we ‘want’ tells us who we want to be. Therefore, we pursue we what we ‘want’ because we don’t want to face who we are.”

Needs Self Identity Embrace Authenticity Transparency Wants Self Identity Engage Confront

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“By far, the best way to find myself before I end up losing myself is to put someone else before myself.”

Giving Self Support Sacrifice Encouragement Sharing Others Sacrificial

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“I will either die at the hands of myself or live in the hands of God.”

Self God Christian Death Jesus Salvation Surrender Redemption Die

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“Death is rendered tragic when it finds us having expended ourselves in the endeavor of having lived for ourselves. For when it finds us at the end of such a life as this, it finds us in the company of no one other than ourselves. And that alone may be worse than death itself.”

Life Self Death Choices Selfish Self Centered Egocentric

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“Any evaluation of who I am is held to the sparseness of who I am without understanding that who I am in union with Who God is renders me capable of being everything that I am not.”

Self God Christian Jesus Impossible Limits Finite Limitations Self Understanding Self Assessment

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“If life is always my party, I’ll never need to order much food.”

Self Party Food Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric

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“If you dare to dig deep enough, you will find a side of yourself that will dramatically enhance all the sides of yourself.”

Self Ability Self Esteem Capability Possibilities Yourself Self Perception Dig Personal Resources

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“Be assured that whatever it is, there will be nothing ‘in it for me’ if I approach it from the perspective of ‘what’s in it for me.”

Self Ego Greed Selfish Selfishness Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric

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“If I’m the only person at my party it’s probably because the party is about one person. And if it’s only about one person, it’s not a party.”

Self Party Selfish Selfishness Greedy Person Narcissistic Egotistical Ego Centric

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“If we were to tally all of the potential that was never unleashed throughout the history of mankind, and if that tally was somehow held up in front of us, I would hope against all hope that it would horrify us to a point of such despair that we would be driven to insure that such a tragedy would never be given any shred of space anywhere in our own lives nor in the lives of any life that we might touch for the rest of our lives.”

Self Faith Lost Waste Potential Possibilities Abilities Wasted Squander Squandered

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“Most of us spend ourselves trying to be something that we’re not. And if we’d just spend that energy on growing into who we are, we’ll rather quickly discover that who we’re not is something that we’ll be glad we’re not.”

Self Identity Self Confidence Genuine True Self Authentic Self Satisfaction

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“The woods invite me into themselves so that I might be drawn out of myself. And if I have never engaged in such an exchange, I will find myself a man so full of myself that I am nothing but myself. And that is a terribly small thing to be.”

Self Nature Ego Empty Woods Liberation Arrogance Forest Small

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“The greatest cause involves the decision not to make myself the greatest cause.”

Self Sacrifice Selfish Surrender Greedy Self Centered Cause Ego Centric

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“Selfishness is hunkering down into our own little worlds because we fear that the vastness of the person standing next to us will call out the vastness of the person living within us.”

Self Humanity Fear Selfishness Frightened Self Understanding Ego Centric

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“It’s not about changing the world, although that’s what we seem to rally around. Rather, it’s about changing ourselves for that is the seed from which changing the world sprouts.”

World Self Change Self Improvement Transform Seed Sprouts Self Analysis Self Honesty

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“Really it’s about God saving me from myself, for if that doesn’t happen ‘first’ then there is no ‘second’.”

Self God Christian Jesus Salvation Selfish Rescue Self Centered Save Ego Centric

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“The fool who thinks he’s god will rather quickly discover that he is not, which simply means that the person who was fooled by the fool is none other than the fool himself.”

Self God Ego Foolish Deceived Self Centered Narcissistic Egotistical

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“Accepting the fact that I don’t even remotely understand all that I can be might prove an insurmountable barrier to some. Yet, if I can accept that fact, the far greater barrier constructed of my suffocatingly limited understanding of myself would be removed. And without a doubt, the former might be difficult to deal with but the latter is certain to kill me.”

Self Understanding Insight Introspection Possibilities Talents Abilities Self Understanding Self Contemplation

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“Achievement is not about ‘doing something.’ Rather, it’s about ‘being someone.”

Self Success Successful Achievement Accomplished Being Doing

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“I don’t want to praise myself. Rather, I want to praise the thing that saves me from myself. Hence there is God.”

Self God Christian Jesus Praise Salvation Rescue Save Retrieve

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“In reality, a gift is nothing more than the wrappings within which I have placed myself.”

Giving Self Sacrifice Selfish Gift Selfless Greedy Self Sacrifice

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“Living for myself ends at myself, and that is very small place to end.”

Self Death Selfish End Self Centered Ending Egocentric

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“Just be yourself instead of trying to prove yourself. For if you do, the former will automatically take care of the latter.”

Self Self Esteem Confidence Yourself Self Doubt Image Of God Self Concept Adequacy

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“Although I too often see myself as powerless, the fact is the New Year is what I make it. And whatever I make it is what it makes me.”

Self Choices Powerful Determination Personal Growth New Year Powerless Fortitude

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“Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of your attitude, or categorized by the opinions of others. Therefore, if any of these are defining you, you have yet to be defined.”

Self Identity Personality Defined Characteristics Traits Self Understanding Self Perception Classified

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“You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?”

Self God Christian Jesus Identity Reflection Mirror Image Self Concept

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“A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.”

“The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.”

Self Ego Weight Greed Heavy Selfish Intense Selfishness Collapse Narcissism Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Egotistical Stand Sit Stands Sits

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“I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself.”

Self Salvation Liberation Arrogance Prisoner Arrogant Rescue Narcissistic Narcissist Save Myself Liberate Imprisoned Rescuing Retrieve

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“If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing itself in the very act of feeding itself.”

“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.”

Self Self Love Ego Lonely Greed Selfish Alone Narcissism Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric Fan Stadium

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“However far I’ve come, it’s probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.”

“If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in.”

Self Ego Lonely Empty Greed Selfish Alone Selfishness Chairs Narcissism Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Me Egocentric Self Centeredness Self Focused Auditorium

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“It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.”

Self Faith Opportunity Belief Self Esteem Confidence Self Confidence Insecurity Opportunities Pessimism Insecure Self Doubt Self Confident Faithless

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“If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.”

Giving Self Sacrifice Ego Greed Selfish Selfishness Narcissism Greedy Give Narcissistic Hoarding Egocentric Sacrificial Hoard

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“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”

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