Pastoral Resources

I am pretty self-indulgent.

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.