Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes, Winning Quotes, Self Quotes

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 what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.

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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

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If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

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'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

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Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.

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

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Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

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He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love

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To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.

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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

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