The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us.
– AW Tozer –
Pride
Sodom’s Iniquity
Sodom’s iniquity was “pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness.”
– Ezekiel 16:49 –
Envy Consumes a Man – St. John Chrysostom
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
– St. John Chrysostom –
(349-407 AD)
If God Be Glorified – Susanna Wesley
I am content to fill a little space if God be glorified.
– Susanna Wesley –
mother of John and Charles Wesley
God Sends No One Away Empty Except … – DL Moody
God sends no one away empty, except those who are full of themselves.
– DL Moody –
What Will Confront The Twentieth Century – William Booth
I consider that the chief dangers which will confront the twentieth century will be: Religion without the Holy Spirit; Christianity without Christ; Forgiveness without regeneration; Morality without God and Heaven without Hell.
– William Booth –
From Our Fallen State – William Law
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state
– William Law –
Compare Yourself Only With Christ – Ralph Venning
There are some poor souls, and I believe there are some among the Corinthians, that are apt to become discouraged when they compare themselves with others. When a dwarf stands by a giant, a man of low stature by a tall one, as David by Goliath, he seems to be nobody; yet he is a man, a perfect man, in spite of the vast difference between them.
Many poor souls, when they see themselves outstripped in knowledge, faith, love and patience by some that came into Christ long after them, are apt to think that they are not saints because they are not saints such as those.
– Ralph Venning –
from Learning in Christ’s School, 1675
A Proud Heart Never Praises God – Charles Spurgeon
A proud heart never praises God, for it hoards up praise for itself.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from the sermon “Praise Your God. O Zion” (February 25, 1866)