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“Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.”
― C.J. Mahaney, Humility: True Greatness

“only those who are humble can consistently identify evidences of grace in others who need adjustment. It’s something the proud and the self-righteous are incapable of.”
― C.J. Mahaney, Humility: True Greatness

“There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.”
― Paul Washer

“Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.”
― Paul Washer

“God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.”
― Paul Washer, The Gospel's Power & Message

“Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.”
― John Stott

“Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.”
― John Stott

“The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.”
― John Stott

“Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.”
― John R.W. Stott

“Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.”
― John Stott, The Cross of Christ

“Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.”
― Craig Groeschel

“Belief overflows to behavior. First we need to change what we believe. when we truly change what we believe, we'll gladly change how we behave.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“As you’ll recall, what you believe — about who you are and who God is — determines how you behave. If you believe everybody is going to criticize you, you’ll behave cautiously. If you believe you’re probably going to fail, you’re going to venture out tentatively. If, however, you believe that the one true Lord God is calling you, empowering you, leading you, and equipping you, then you will live boldly. Why? Because boldness is behavior born of belief.”
― Craig Groeschel, Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are

“Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.”
― Craig Groeschel, Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are

“Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.”
― Craig Groeschel

“Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.”
― Craig Groeschel, Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

“the strongest man is not the one who lifts the most weight but the one who has the most faith.”
― Craig Groeschel, Fight: Winning the Battles That Matter Most

“The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.”
― Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

“A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.”
― Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

“reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.”
― Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

“Do we desire such knowledge of God? Then two things follow. First, we must recognize how much we lack knowledge of God. We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
― A.W. Tozer

“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. ”
― A. W. Tozer

“I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.”
― A.W. Tozer

“When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.”
― A.W. Tozer

“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Man's greatest need, then, is not to try to clean his hands or fix his life on the outside; man's greatest need is a changed heart on the inside. Holiness begins in the heart, and only Jesus can produce this kind of change.”
― David Platt, Exalting Jesus in Matthew

“Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

“We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream