{"id":8785,"date":"2016-08-16T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/self\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:53:08","slug":"self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/self\/","title":{"rendered":"SELF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Be Good To You Be Yourself \u2013 Truthfully<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Accept Yourself \u2013 Gracefully<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Value Yourself \u2013 Joyfully<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Forgive Yourself \u2013 Completely<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Treat Yourself \u2013 Generously<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Balance Yourself \u2013 Harmoniously<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Bless Yourself \u2013 Abundantly<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Trust Yourself \u2013 Confidently<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Love Yourself \u2013 Wholeheartedly<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Empower Yourself \u2013 Prayerfully<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Give Yourself \u2013 Enthusiastically<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Express Yourself \u2013 Radiantly<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Who sits in solitude and is quiet has escaped from three wars: hearing, speaking, seeing; yet against one thing shall he continually battle: that is, his own heart.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>St. Antony<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>That favorite subject, Myself<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>James Boswell<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Thomas Browne<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>If a man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand, and another conquer himself, he who conquers himself is the greater conqueror.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Buddha<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>God, harden me against myself.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Amy Carmichael<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Confucius<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I am having more trouble with myself than any other man I have ever met.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Raymond Dale<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Some conjurors say that three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It\u2019s neither, my friend, neither. It\u2019s number one.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Charles Dickens<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>There is one work which is right and proper for us to do, and that is the eradication of self. But however great this eradication and reduction of self may be, it remains insufficient if God does not complete it in us. For our humility is only perfect when God humbles us through ourselves.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Meister Eckhart<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The true value of a human being can be found in degrees to which he has attained liberation from the self.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Albert Einstein<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>A person\u2019s attitude toward himself has a profound influence on his attitude toward God, his family, his friends, his future, and many other significant areas of his life.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Bill Gothard<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Madame Guyon<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>To fight against sin is to fight against the devil, the world and oneself. The fight against oneself is the worst fight of all.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Martin Luther<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Martin Luther<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>There is no smaller package than a person all wrapped up in himself.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Peter C. Moore<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Self is the root, the branches, the tree, of all the evil of our fallen state.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Andrew Murray<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>All greatness grows great by self-abasement, and not by exalting itself.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Nestorius<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>There is a principle of self, which disposes us to despise those who differ from us; and we are often under its influence, when we think we are only demonstrating a becoming zeal in the cause of God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Newton<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Friedrich Nietzsche<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cI\u201d is hateful.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Blaise Pascal<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>To conquer self is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one\u2019s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Plato<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>If I long to improve my brother, the first step toward doing so is to improve myself.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Christina Rossetti<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Seneca<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>When you get your own way, you nurse a hideous idol called self. But when you give up your own way, you get God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Janet Erskin Stewart<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Joseph P. Thompson<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Of Self and Me, the more of sin and wickedness and the more the Self, the I, the Me, the Mine, that is, self-seeking and selfishness, abate in a man, the more doth God\u2019s I, that is, God Himself, increase.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Theologian Germanica<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The I, the Self and the like must all be given up and done away.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Theologian Germanica<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>A.W. 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