The presence or calling of God can be no reasons but the guidance of God because of His glorification.
Wasting time is living in self glorification instead of glorifying God as God is time
Cultivate the understanding that the self is not really an independently existing entity, and begin to view self instead in terms of it's dependent relation to others. Although it is difficult to say...
Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they...
The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
All we need to release our inner God is a pulpit and an audience, both of which the Internet supplies in great abundance. Too bad that the corollaly to being in God mode in cyberspace is an explosion...
The human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.
It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.
The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.
Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion w...
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think...
One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.
And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a bit cheap, a bit foul, and that no one appreciates all the remarkable things about me—my fantasy, my...
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
Pride is nothing more than us highlighting us.
Seeing myself or my church or my denomination as the blessing — like so many mission trips to help those less fortunate than ourselves — can easily descend into a blend of benevolence and paternalism...
It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.
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