If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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