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“We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.”

World May Self Dies Christ Sin Plans Ambition Died Rose Significance New Life Martyr Baptism

Author:Vance Havner

“We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and sinners. This judgment, which separated knowledge of man from self-knowledge, was as nothing in God’s eyes. The Jew did not have a better understanding because he was able to judge the heathen. In the sphere of abstract morality this could possibly be said, but this is not Biblical morality - O man, who judgest others!”

Men Said Real Self Eye Able Understanding Sin Judging Morality Judgment Jew Abstract Sinner Spheres Accurate Biblical Self Knowledge Heathen Pharisees

Book:Man: The Image of God

Source: Man: The Image of God

“Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.”

Knows World Self Law Sin Ignorance Broken Claims Excuse Originality Self Knowledge No Excuses Unattainable Sinning Unknowing Ignorance Of The Law

Author:Clarice Lispector

“If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.”

People Ifs Self Seems Political Certain Sin Waste Prejudice Reform Deception Selfishness Flaws Wasting Time Self Deception Political Reform

Author:Steven Pinker

“Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.”

Source: Message of the President of the United States Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Fifty-ninth Congress

“Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.”

Self Sin Satisfied Superiority Sense Of Self

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!”

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Author:J. C. Ryle

“It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.”

Self Christ Sin Flow Crosses Calvary

Book:The Complete Green Letters

Source: The Complete Green Letters

“The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.”

Men Should Self Sin Greater Grace Duty Charity Righteous Multitudes Neighbour Charitable True Religion

Book:Theological Manuscripts: Selected and Edited with an Introd. by H. McLachlan

Source: Theological Manuscripts: Selected and Edited with an Introd. by H. McLachlan

“The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.”

Self Lasts Christ Sin Principles Arms Overcoming Salvation Driven Denial Renunciation Self-denial Forsaken Grounding Citadels

Book:BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES

Source: BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES

“There is no such thing as a secret among our leaders; communication is very open and honest, and if it's not, then it can become seemingly brutal. You've heard my arguments for love, friends, and authenticity, but there are the deceivers, the manipulators, the control freaks, and the self-appointed teachers in the Body who would love to use our system for their own selfish purposes. We all know the realities of the old sin nature.”

Ifs Knows Self Use Body Reality Purpose Sin Secret Leader Teacher Heard Honest Communication Argument Selfish Authenticity Freak Brutal Control Freak Deceiver Manipulator

Author:Ted Haggard

“You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little babe, that is all; and if you make any progress from that point on, it must be by work, by sacrifice, by the practice of Christian virtues, by benevolence, by self-denial, by resisting the adversary, by making valiant war for God and against sin; and on no other basis, am I authorized in giving you a hope that you may come to manhood in Christ Jesus.”

“The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.”

“Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.”

Self Sin Pride Shame Lifestyle Indulgence Self Centered Emblems Self Indulgence

Author:Billy Graham

“self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).”

Self Sin Sacrifice Abuse Seven Pity Deception Serving Self Deception Self Pity Self Sacrifice Loathing Self Loathing Self Serving Deadly Sins Seven Deadly Sins

Book:Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.”

Ifs Want Self Care Culture Lost Sin Kindness Destruction Preserves Self Destruction Parental Omission Fostering Castaway

Book:Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.”

Humans War Self Seems Causes Sleep Sin Race Virtue Daughter Resistance Human Race Laziness Persecution Status Quo Constancy Self Sufficiency Sufficiency

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.”

Self Sin Grace Slavery God's Grace

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.”

Self Sin Impossible Selfish Pursuit Disciple Exaltation

Book:Humility: True Greatness

Source: Humility: True Greatness

“The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin”

Heart Persons Self Life Is Loses Sin Focus Rights Perception Fundamentals Denial Sovereignty Elevation Brazen Sovereignty Of God

Author:D. A. Carson

“The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.”

“He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery. He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing.”

Source: The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History

“This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.”

Thinking Self Religion Sin Steps Unusual Examination Protestantism Self-examination Unusual Things

Author:Stendhal

“My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender.”

Humans May Self Christian Purpose Jesus Sin Human Nature Duty Forgiveness Forgiving Uncomfortable Accomplished Self Centered Offenders

Author:Gordon Dalbey

“Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.”

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Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.”

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Book:God's Good News

Source: God's Good News

“The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.”

Men Firsts Doe Soul Self Law Sin Simple Opinion Virtue Pure Office Spring Superiors Naked Rational Obedience Heavenly Commandments Submission Disputes Benefactors Self Opinion

Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

“The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.”

Men Love Should Kind Self Form Certain Suffering Universe Sin Particular He Man Self Love Importance Graves Traditional Virtuous Defects Absorption Self Absorption

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.”

Self Sin Love Is Self Love Canon

Author:William Shakespeare

“The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.”

Self Age Spiritual Desire Sin Grief Imagine Ultimate Hunger Old Age Thirst Hunger And Thirst Grief And Death

Book:Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the god-man

Source: Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the god-man

“"You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest your Self in a high degree.”

Doe Self Sin Perfect Strength Pure Degrees Lows Manifestation Manifest

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.”

Thinking Persons Self Reality Easy Sin Attitude Judging Ought Behavior Weakness Critical Focused Righteous Shortcomings Blinded Self Righteous Easy To Judge

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Self-righteousness....is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.”

“Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.”

Source: Readings in St. John's Gospel ...

“It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.”

Self Sin Self Esteem Perspective Pride Glory Crosses Infinite Humble Contemporary Esteem Witness Prophet Biblical Immensity

Book:The Supremacy of God in Preaching

Source: The Supremacy of God in Preaching

“According to the spirit of this age, the ultimate sin is no longer the failure to honor and thank God but the failure to esteem oneself. Self-abasement, not God-abasement, is the evil. And the cry of deliverance is not "O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me?" but "O worthy man that I am, would that I could only see it better"!”

Men Self Age Spirit Evil Sin Self Esteem Cry Honor Ultimate Oneself Worthy Esteem Thank God Wretched Deliverance Abasement

Author:John Piper

“Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.”

Giving Mean Doe Self Christian Jesus Sin Giving Up Gods Will Commit Abiding

Author:Andy Murray

“Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self.”

Self Sin Deliverance Sanctification

Author:Andy Murray

“The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The believer's cross must be, like his Lord's, the price of his social nonconformity. It is not, like sickness or catastrophe, an inexplicable, unpredictable suffering; it is the end of the path freely chosen after counting the cost. It is not, like Luther's or Thomas Muntzer's or Zinzendorf's or Kierkegaard's cross, an inward wrestling of the sensitive soul with self and sin; it is the social reality of representing in an unwilling world the Order to come.”

“The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.”

World Self Sin Dangerous Self Reliance Reliance Dangerous Things Worldliness

Author:John Piper

“Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family.”

Should Soul Self Home Sin Sacrifice Intellectual Commit Flames Purity Consent Nobility Stimulus Self Sacrifice Tranquil Extended Family

Author:Rebecca West

“Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness.”

May Mean Self Fall Christ Memories Sin Humility Weakness Stones Perfection Constant Height Distrust Clinging Stepping Stones Augustine

Author:James Stalker

“Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.”

Self Sin Commit Rejection

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“So we are mocked by this world when we speak of God's coming judgment against all sin, and when we plead that sinners come to the Savior to avoid Hell. But we can't give up because our task is irksome, or because we are mocked. Neither can we live self-indulgent lives, because our convictions aren't based on some man-made and fallible calculations. They are based on the immutability of the Word of God.”

Men World Giving Made Self Speak Sin Hell This World Giving Up Judgment Tasks Conviction Sinner Savior Word Of God Calculations Self Indulgent

Author:Ray Comfort

“Men who as boys felt neglected by their dads often remain distant from their children. The sins of fathers are passed on to children, often through the dynamic of self-protection. It hurts to be neglected, and it creates questions about our value to others. So to avoid feeling the sting of further rejection, we refuse to give that part of ourselves we fear might once again be received with indifference.”

Men Giving Children Self Feelings Might Values Father Felt Hurt Sin Boys Dad Refuse Protection Indifference Rejection It Hurts Neglected Self Protection Sins Of The Father

Book:Inside Out

Source: Inside Out

“Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a throne of grace; and beg of God to break your heart; beg of God to convince you of your actual sins; beg of God to convince you of your original sin; beg of God to convince you of your self-righteousness; beg of God to give you faith, and to enable you to close with Jesus Christ.”

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Author:George Whitefield

“When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.”

Self Running Sin Righteousness Exposed Confession Justification Self Righteousness Self Justification

Author:Paul David Tripp

“Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.”

Self Law Sin Views Lows Fruit Righteousness Self Righteousness

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Through dance, people meet demons, ward off death, shake off sin and evil, come to terms with life crises, mediate paradoxes, resolve conflict, revitalize the past to re-create the present, enhance their self-concept and body image, attract attention, assert themselves, confront the strong, and persuade others to change their ways.”

People Way Self Body Past Evil Strong Term Sin Attention Conflict Concepts Crisis Demon Shakes Paradox Resolve Body Image Self Concept Life Crisis

Book:Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

“It is a kind of self-projection of our sins when we insist on other people becoming good. In reality, we wish to become good, but because we are unable to, we demand it of others and insist on this.”

People Kind Self Reality Wish Sin Becoming Demand Projection

Author:Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia