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> [“As long as the self is consumed in the struggle to make itself lovely, it cannot love. First it must come to the end of its own resources, for the power to love derives purely and solely from the knowledge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/as-long-as-the-self-is-consumed-in-the-struggle-to-make-itself-lovely/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

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## More by Mike Mason

> [Take away material prosperity; take away emotional highs; take away miracles and healing; take away fellowship with other believers; take away church; take away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/take-away-material-prosperity-take-away-emotional-highs-take-away/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/how-tragic-that-the-very-thing-that-could-set-us-free-playing-the/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [“And so must learn to love with our mouths and voices, as well as with our eyes, flesh, heart, brains, and with everything we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/and-so-must-learn-to-love-with-our-mouths-and-voices-as-well-as-with/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/to-keep-a-vow-means-not-to-keep-from-breaking-it-but-rather-to-devote/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/and-as-dad-said-to-me-you-can-t-always-stop-people-from-being-mean/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/pure-suffering-has-a-consciousness-a-tongue-a-heart-all-its-own-and/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [The very fact that faith looks to a power beyond itself means that it is continually subject to loss of control. So if you're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/the-very-fact-that-faith-looks-to-a-power-beyond-itself-means-that-it/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [“What is such a believer, whose very life depends upon the daily bread of the living Word of God, supposed to do when God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/what-is-such-a-believer-whose-very-life-depends-upon-the-daily-bread/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [“Theology, it turns out, is Satan's favorite game.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/theology-it-turns-out-is-satan-s-favorite-game/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/we-like-to-talk-about-having-the-faith-to-be-healed-what-about-the/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [“As long as the self is consumed in the struggle to make itself lovely, it cannot love. First it must come to the end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/as-long-as-the-self-is-consumed-in-the-struggle-to-make-itself-lovely/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/it-is-easier-to-diminish-god-than-it-is-to-enlarge-one-s-heart/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/true-worship-has-less-to-do-with-offering-sacrifices-than-with-being/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/real-love-is-always-fated-it-has-been-arranged-before-time-it-is-the-2/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

> [It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mason/it-is-something-that-is-just-there-and-it-is-huge-and-everything-has/)

[Mike Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mason/)

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