-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)