“Well, before you are always self—you’re always self-centered. Everything is for you. Your self is God. And we make lousy gods. Humans make lousy gods, I think. We need to let God be God and us be what we are. I think that’s what changes: the focus on who you’re serving. You’re not serving you. You’re serving Christ.”

— Alice Cooper

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American rock singer, songwriter and musician 1948

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

“You might not think it now, but if you’re one of God’s children, you’re going to figure it out by the end of your life—God is good.”

James MacDonald (1960) American pastor

Source: Always True (Moody, 2011), p. 84

“I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you’re older, I think, is that — how to express this — you really must make the self.”

Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer

Interview by Elisabeth Niebuhr in "The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, Second Series" (1963) [the interview took place in March 1961]
Context: I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you’re older, I think, is that — how to express this — you really must make the self. It's absolutely useless to look for it, you won’t find it, but it’s possible in some sense to make it.