Quotes About Self

Prayer always forsakes the kingdom of self for the kingdom of God,

The myriad of dysfunctions of the human community can be traced to this one thing: awe. When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.

when Jesus touches me with his rescuing grace, he is freeing me from my bondage to me!

This side of eternity in this broken world, cursing is the default language of the kingdom of self, but mourning is the default language of the kingdom of God. Which language will you speak today?

I am still tempted to assess the "good" of a day by whether it pleased me versus whether I pleased God and was loving toward others.

I have been freed, not from God's rule, but from my bondage to me.

You see, the biggest protection against the kingdom of self is not a set of self-reformative defensive strategies. It's a heart that's so blown away by the right-here, right-now glories of the grace of Jesus Christ that we're not easily seduced by the lesser temporary glories of that claustrophobic kingdom of one, the kingdom of self.

Prayer always forsakes the kingdom of self for the kingdom of God, and for that we all need forgiving, rescuing, and transforming grace.

the identity we assign to ourselves shapes and defines the way that we live our lives.

We love ourselves so much that we have little energy left to love the One who is love.

The war that rages in all our hearts is a war between the awe of God and the awe of self. The war really does somehow turn all of us into glory thieves. Perhaps we commit vertical larceny much more than we realize. Perhaps we quest for personal glory more than we think. Perhaps we take credit for what only God can do more often than we think we do. Perhaps, in subtle idolatry, we give credit to places and things when it really belongs to God.

But here is the reality: all of the horizontal battles are the fruit of a deeper war. The most important war, the one that needs to be won, is not the war they are having with each other, but a war that wages within them individually. Real change is all about winning this war.

God's grace invites you to be part of something that is far greater than your boldest and most expansive dream. His grace cuts a hole in your self-built prison and invites you to step into something so huge, so significant that only one word in the Bible can adequately capture it. That word is glory.

You have no reason for fear when you answer God's call; you have every reason to be afraid when you put your life in your own hands.

When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.

in the heart of a sinner, awe of God is very quickly replaced by awe of self.

Sinners tend to move away from defining themselves in relationship to their Creator and begin defining themselves in relationship to the creation.

En lugar de que sea el amor de Dios moldeando mis relaciones y motivaciones, el amor por mí mismo toma el control.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Ik of hij, vanop een afstand ben ik hij, teruglopend word ik ik.

Always remember a useful dictum: every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.

every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.

And you can trust your own experiences more than your beliefs.

When they get out of balance, and our inner selves become involved in intense conflict, then people can begin to experience mental-health problems.