-Pride

'It's like the beaver told the rabbit as they stared up at the immense wall of Hoover Dam, "Well, no I didn't actually build it myself. But it was based on an idea of mine."

--Charles H Townes

-Pride

'I define ego as Edging God Out.'

--Kenneth Blanchard

Self-deception/Pride

'A man is never so proud as when boasting an attitude of humility!'

--C.S. Lewis

-Witness / -Narcissism

'You cannot at the same time show that Christ is wonderful--and you are clever.'

--Principal Denny of Scotland

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--Perspective, ~ Pain

'Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.'

--James Russell Lowell

-Self-love ~~
By: A. W. Tozer

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think for yourself whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol. How then can you hope to have inward peace? The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind rest. ~~

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-Sin

'Many Christians define sin as the sum total of acts which they themselves do not commit.'

--Carlyle Marney

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Executive consultant Richard Hagberg told this story:

The head of one large company recently told me about an incident that occurred as he and his wife waited in line to get his driver's license renewed. He was frustrated at how long it was taking and grumbled to his wife, "Don't they know who I am?"

She replied, "Yeah, you're a plumber's son who got lucky."

--(Fortune 6/26-96)

-PRIDE AND
PREJUDICE

-Acts 17:22-31
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He has made from
one blood every
nation of men to
dwell on all the face
of the earth.
--Acts 17:26
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Back in the 1930s, my childhood home was loving and happy, but my parents were often away. We had a joyous housekeeper named Annie.

Annie would sit in our kitchen and read books or play with toys and we liked listening to her sing and hum spirtuals and hymns. Annie's heart was full of wisdom, cheerfulness, and song.

One morning, with childish exuberance, I used a racial slur I had heard. "Oh my, No," she said, and then proceeded to pour out her heart in a gentle lecture on harm and hurt in that accompanied by a terrible sadness in her eyes. I never used that word again.

Every human being is created in the image of God--more like God than any other creature and worthy of honor. To demean that image is to wound another human being at the deepest level.

There is but one race; the human race. God "has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth" (Acts.17:26). We are of the same family, made to be cherished by one another.
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-God desires that we show respect to all people,
because everyone bears His image.

--ODB/DR

-MY WAY?

Proverbs 16:20-25
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There is a way that
seems right to a
man, but its end is
the way of death.
--Proverbs 16:25
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I received a letter from a man in prison who said: "I came to the point in my life where I finally accepted the fact that God is real and the Creator of everything. I grew tired of trying to do things my way. When I started humbling myself and accepting God's Word, I found the answer."

How ridiculous to reject God's plan of salvation because we think we know better! Only by placing our trust in Christ for the forgiveness of our sins can we be reconciled to God (John 14:6; Rom 3:23;6:23). Are you still trying to do things your own way, thinking you know best? (Prov 16:25). Agree with God and go His way.

There aren't many ways into heaven;
The Bible says there's only One;
Confessing Christ Jesus as Savior,
Believing in God's only Son.
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Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only Way. -[Tozer]

--ODB/DB