self inflicted Quotes

“He realized that much of his torment of the years past had been self-inflicted, and an inevitable part of growing up.”

“As to those feebler spirits who, though they cannot be said to prefer earthly possessions to Christ, do yet cleave to them with a somewhat immoderate attachment, they have discovered by the pain of losing these things how much they were sinning in loving them. For their grief is of their own making.”