Christ Quote by Henry Allen Ironside

What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“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

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

— Francis of Assisi

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

— Ezra Taft Benson

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given…

— Joseph P. Bradley

Salvation lies in self-conquest.

— Tasneem Hameed

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

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

— Simone Weil

Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others.

— Pope Francis

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord,…

— Monica Johnson

“Foundations totter that are not laid deep enough. The more true light a man hath, the more cause of self-abasement will he find in…

— Thomas Manton

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.…

— Eric Hoffer