Barack Obama Quotes

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what's in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.

The No. 1 thing you should know about me: I've always tried to put God first in my life, and I'm the first to admit I often have failed because I'm too proud and too stubborn.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

I'm actually very spiritual.

In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

I grew up in a religious family and, like, that was a very big part of my life, and still, very much, is even though I don't affiliate with any specific religion. It's just, for me, you know, the spirituality of being able to own up to your sins, as they're called, and take responsibility for your actions really hit me this time around.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be in a hurry to sacrifice it, otherwise the greatest egoist is born: the person who thinks he is humble, the person who thinks that he has no ego.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow.