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“... the core of sin is a lack of self-esteem. ... Sin is psychological self-abuse. ... the most serious sin is one that causes me to say, 'I am unworthy. I may have no claim to divine sonship if you examine me at my worst.' For once a person believes he is an 'unworthy sinner,' it is doubtful if he can really honestly accept the saving grace God offers in Jesus Christ.”

“...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of the Christian faith conservatives like me profess) and hold laissez faire attitudes about the use and abuse of the natural world.”

“But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.”

Children Self Age Waiting Creative Degrees Unique Abuse Shame Depth Neglect Buried True Self Rebellious Coercion Daydreaming

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.”

Men Way Should Self Enough Government Community Responsibility Power Abuse Genuine Arise Temptation Assumption Permit Units Personal Responsibility Great Power Self-government

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“We runners talk about having fun but I don't think anybody believes us. We talk about discipline and endurance, we take care, we exercise caution, we watch our diets and monitor our pace. We are ascetics who talk, unconvincingly, of the bracing enjoyment of self-abuse.”

Thinking Believe Self Care Fun Watches Discipline Exercise Abuse Take Care Having Fun Diets Enjoyment Endurance Pace Runners Caution

Author:Peter Sagal

“When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the insidious nature and cumulative effects of the abuse that do the damage. Over time, this type of abuse eats away at your self-confidence and sense of self-worth, undermining any good feelings you have about yourself and about your accomplishments .”

Self Feelings Effects Type Abuse Blame Faults Critical Self Confidence Self Worth Accomplishment Damage About Yourself Sense Of Self Insidious Good Feeling Undermining Cumulative

Book:The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing

Source: The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”

“Persons Are Turned against Themselves Evil also turns a person against herself so that self is used against self. The case of the woman who received a dismissal letter from her pastor comes to mind again. The psychological decompensation she suffered was successfully used by her husband to intercede with a psychiatrist of his choosing to commit her to the mental unit of a hospital for an extended involuntary stay, which further worsened her condition. Additional examples abound. Some patients report cults using induced hypnotic states to encourage a subject's dissociated hands and arms to do something hurtful to someone else. In such cases, the subject is encouraged to watch the hand that is hers but not hers (because it is dissociated from her). The end result is often extreme guilt. self-loathing, and distrust of one's self and motives.An incestuous parent may use a child's own natural bodily responses to repeated sexual stimulation to make the point that the child really "wants and enjoys“ what is being forced upon her.”

Self Evil Abuse Guilt Mental Illness Child Abuse Emotional Abuse Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociation Child Sexual Abuse Self Loathing Ritual Abuse Hypnosis Satanic Ritual Abuse Cults Cult Abuse Perpetuation

Book:Trauma and Evil: Healing the Wounded Soul

Source: Trauma and Evil: Healing the Wounded Soul