Quotes about Self

Picking Another Channel "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.

It's not right to spend money you don't have to perpetuate a lie about who you are.

The greatest idol I will never truly remove is self.

Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.

The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.

Our deepest problem is that we seek to find our identity outside the story of redemption.

Here's the reality: most people who are angry with God are angry with him for being God. They're not angry because he has failed to deliver what he promised. They're angry because he has failed to deliver what they have craved, expected, or demanded. When awe of self replaces awe of God, God ceases to be your Lord and is reduced to being your indentured servant.

You are always looking for something to which you can attach your identity, your hopes and dreams, and your inner peace.

It is dangerous to live without your heart being captured by awe of God, because awe of God is quickly replaced by awe of you.

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!