I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a shit. What’s worse is that you’re more upset with the fact I just said “shit” than you are that 30,000 kids died last night.
Self-Righteousness
Dwight L Moody
Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment, but trust in GOD, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.
Rob Cosica
When Jesus overturned the merchants’ tables (Mark 11:15-17), he wasn’t giving you permission to condemn those you think are dishonoring the church. He did it to remind you to give him permission to overturn whatever in your life isn’t his, and restore you as his house of prayer when you’ve dishonored yourself.
Winkie Pratney
It is not always the bad things that take us from the best. It is not just unrighteousness but our own righteousness, not just wrongs but unyielded rights that cause us to lose focus in the war and lose our life in seeking to save it. God never said, “You shall have no other bad gods before Me.” Just gods.
Rob Coscia
Every time I see a post or comment “calling someone out,” I’m struck by how we use our self–righteousness as a rationale to humiliate, punish, and even destroy someone’s value as a person. But when Jesus, in genuine righteousness, calls someone out, it’s to restore, heal, and bring him or her fully to life.
“Lazarus, come forth!” (John 11:43)
Blaise Pascal
God is none other than the Saviour of our wretchedness. So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities… Those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified him, but have glorified themselves.
Author Unknown
Every time a thought of superiority or vanity moves you, examine your conscience to see if you have kept all the commandments.
John the Evangelist
Anyone who tries self-sufficiency in the spiritual life soon falls prey to illusion.
John Owen
Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read or hear of to be gone to heaven, went there because they were so good and holy…Yet not one of them, not any one that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone excepted), did ever come there any other way but by forgiveness of sins.
Henry Ward Beecher
Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God’s grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.