“You see, the verdict is in. And now I perform on the basis of the verdict. Because He loves me and He accepts me, I do not have to do things just to build up my résumé. I do not have to do things to make me look good. I can do things for the joy of doing them. I can help people to help people – not so I can feel better about myself, not so I can fill up the emptiness.”
― The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness
― The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness
“The way the normal human ego tries to fill its emptiness and deal with its discomfort is by comparing itself to other people. All the time.”
― The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness
― The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness
“The thing we would remember from meeting a truly gospel-humble person is how much they”
― The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness
― The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness
“This is gospel-humility, blessed self-forgetfulness. Not thinking less of myself as in modern cultures, or less of myself as in traditional cultures. Simply thinking of myself less.”
― The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness
― The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness
“Up until the 20th century, traditional cultures (and this is still true of most cultures in the world) always believed that too high a view of yourself was the root cause of all the evil in the world...Our belief today--and it in deeply rooted in everything--is that people misbehave for lack of self-esteem and because they have too low a view of themselves.”
― The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness
― The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness
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