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Self Quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer
- Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
- Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer…
- Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine…
- Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
- For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.
- There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be…
- Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
- I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any…
- I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept…
- Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.
- The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.
- The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.
- Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him…
- The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.
- Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.
- The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. What he is or is not no longer concerns…
- Breezy, self-confident Christians tell us how wonderful it is to accept Christ and then have a good time all the rest of your life; the…
- The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.
- Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.
- A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God…
- Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is…
- Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to…
- In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure , although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an…
- Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we…
- Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster