Nature of man Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Christ" states that those who see themselves as "separate" and not "divine" hinder humanity's ability to spiritually evolve. Those who deny their own "divinity"…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

“There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify…

— Thomas Merton

“We need Christ-the real Christ. A Christ born of empty speculation or created to squeeze into the philosopher's pattern simply won't do. A recycled…

— R.C. Sproul

“Taking on the identity of Christ is a significant concept that helps define who we are as God’s people. Out of many, we become…

— Ross Parsley

“To be self-centered is to be self-destroyed…The preservation of self is the surest path to self-destruction (Crowded to Christ, p. 128).”

— L. E. Maxwell

“The astonishing paradox of Christ's teaching and of Christian experience is this: if we lose ourselves in following Christ, we actually find ourselves. True…

— John R.W. Stott

“To avoid Christ in your thought at any point, then, is to be misled, untruthful, and spiritually dead.”

— Greg L. Bahnsen

“Observe that for the novelist who has remained Christian, like myself, man is someone creating himself or destroying himself. He is not an immobile…

— François Mauriac

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

— Anonymous

“So far as we know, the tiny fragments of the universe embodied in man are the only centers of thought and responsibility in the…

— Michael Polanyi

“Everyone is in a process of spiritual formation. We are being shaped into either the wholeness of the image of Christ or a horribly…

— M. Robert Mulholland Jr

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

— Vance Havner