Thou hast made us a little lower than the angels and hast crowned us with glory and honor, yet how little we know ourselves!
If we know ourselves we know that a life may have a fair outside, and yet not be a thing to trust to.
Satan knows us much better than we know ourselves, and it is not likely that he would solicit us to commit a certain sin unless he saw something in us that encouraged him to think we would, with some persuasion, be willing to do it.
He who knows us so well, better than we know ourselves, better than anyone knows us save God and our Guardian Angel, sees ever in us possibilities of final and eternal failure.
But just as we do not know the former beforehand, so no a priori insight is given us into the latter, but we only come to know ourselves as we come to know other persons a posteriori through experience.
Finally we come to know ourselves as quite different from what a priori we supposed ourselves to be, and then we are often terrified at ourselves.
As by the presence of God being with us we know ourselves to be the people of God: so by this presence of God the world themselves are sometimes convinced who we are also.
Is it not this that rightly rectifies our judgment about ourselves, that makes us to know ourselves, that tends to cut off those superfluous sprigs of pride and self-conceitedness, wherewith we are subject to be overcome?
Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves by Jesus Christ alone.
We know ourselves so little, that many think themselves near death when they are perfectly well, and many think themselves well when they are near death, since they do not feel the fever at hand, or the abscess about to form.
It is therefore little toknow ourselves little, and it is great to know ourselves little.
To this we are tempted by a view of greater sins in others, which serve as a foil to act off our fancied goodness; and especially by the knowledge of certain great sins in others, of which we know ourselves to be clear.
As we know ourselves to be free agents, and as we possess only delegated powers, we are certainly accountable for the use which we make of those powers.
We know ourselves as intelligences, as beings that foresee and contrive, that can discover and apply principles, that can originate order and adjustment.
If we did not know ourselves as causes, we could not know God as a cause; and we know ourselves as causes only in so far as we know ourselves as wills.
Most of us, as we come to know ourselves better, recognize marked alterations even in spiritual states which we are taught to refer to physical condition, but just as truly altered spiritual conditions produce altered physical states.
As we know ourselves to be living in a world which is less than a speck in an immensity wherein the birth and death of suns are ephemeral, we may rightly distrust our own value for the vaster order.
We know ourselves to be in the morning what we were when we went to sleep the night before, simply because memory reassembles immediately the continuing elements of our individual existences.
There must be some kind of separation from the camp if we are to know ourselves, some leisure gained for quiet reflection.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "know ourselves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
