#himself

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#attribute #belonging #character #clothes #endeavors

The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#communications #constitutes #express #god #himself

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#directly #directly proportional #disagreeable #feel #himself

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

#companions #family #go #himself #his

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#considering #control #dimension #everything #highest

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. ↗

— Vance Havner

#him #himself #keep #preacher #prepare

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#justly #others #undervalued #who

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#coming #deceiving #either #fathers #himself

The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#brings #denied #every #except #grateful