It’s not about finding ways to avoid God’s judgment and feeling like a failure if you don’t do everything perfectly. It’s about fully experiencing God’s love and letting it perfect you. It’s not about being somebody you are not. It’s about becoming who you really are.
Self-Condemnation
Suzy Larson
When you come to the edges of yourself, and you see the limits of your love, your generosity, and your willingness to give of yourself; instead of despair, just whisper a prayer to the God who loves you. He’ll do for you, in you, and through you what you cannot do for yourself. He never rolls His eyes or breathes a heavy sigh when He looks at you. He loves you.
Seth Dahl
If we self-shame and self-judge, we create a filter around us where every interaction sounds like we are being shamed and judged. Sometimes instead of thinking someone else is judging us, we need to check if we’ve been doing it to ourselves.
Sylvia Gunter
The Spirit of truth and grace says that you are free. Start living like it. If you are still living in bondage to self-condemnation, you are like a dog whose leash has been removed, but he stays in the yard because he thinks he is still tied up. Jesus Christ got rid of that “leash” forever at Calvary.
Henry Van Dyke
The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.