Quotes about Inner

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.

I was only just beginning to realize what a horribly destructive thing hate is, how it destroys inwards as well as outwards. I

What you conquer within you conquer without.

Notice how Christ uses that word deny twice. He said to Peter the first time, "Deny himself" (Matthew 16:24); He said to Peter the second time, "Thou shalt deny me" (Matthew 26:34). It is either of the two. There is no other choice for us; we must either deny self or deny Christ. There are two great powers fighting each other the self-nature in the power of sin, and Christ in the power of God. Either of these must rule within us.

Nothing but the presence of God can reveal and expel self.

As much as you have pride within you, you have the fallen angel alive in you. As much as you have true humility, you have of the Lamb of God within you.

A machine can do work; only life can bear fruit. A law can compel work; only love can spontaneously bring forth fruit. Work implies effort and labor; the essential idea of fruit is that it is the silent, natural, restful produce of our inner life.

The truth is this: Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

The fact that the outer man decays from day to day does not hurt the believers' true Life. It even helps its growth, because the inner

Silence is a source of great strength.