self inflicted Quotes

“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.”

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