Thinking of Ourselves & God

Reflecting on our rebellion against God and the idolatry of self from Romans 1:18-32, Karl Barth makes this profound statement:

Thinking of ourselves what can be thought only of God, we are unable to think of Him more highly than we think of ourselves. Being to ourselves what God ought to be to us, He is no more to us than we are to ourselves.

~ The Epistle to the Romans (London, England: Oxford University Press, 1968), 45.