Category: SELF-WORTH & CONFIDENCE

  • So we have to discern this concept of self-acceptance thoughtfully as well. Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh said, in one of his informal talks to his parish, “Accept yourself, as a stone given to a sculptor. Accept how you are and that you need work to reveal the statue, i.e. what you truly can be.” In other words, reconcile yourself to being you, a beautiful creature but a work in progress. Accept also that you must give yourself over to God’s sculpting. Because there are elements that need refining and others that need excision to reveal the genuine you.

    How to Be a Sinner
    Peter Bouteneff

  • So the messages we hear, exhorting us to build up our self-esteem, are correct, but they go astray when they tell us to do so through an unbridled self-pampering, especially through unchecked consumerism.

    How to Be a Sinner
    Peter Bouteneff

  • And then of course there is the damage to oneself. On the milder level, consider the person who is unaware of what she is truly capable of achieving, and is held back all his or her life by low self-esteem.

    How to Be a Sinner
    Peter Bouteneff

  • People with poor self-worth make the rest of the world suffer for it.

    How to Be a Sinner
    Peter Bouteneff