Meditations on Pride

Christian Quotation of the Day
September 1, 1999

    I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the
Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. 
They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take
them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about
their conduct or services.
                                    ... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
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Christian Quotation of the Day
November 9, 1999

    That crowd of Jews would have followed Christ at that
moment because He was giving them what they wanted [bread], and
they wished to use Him for their plans and dreams and purposes. 
That attitude to Christ still lingers in men's minds.  We would
like Christ's gifts without Christ's Cross; we would like to
use Christ instead of allowing Him to use us. 
   ... William Barclay (1907-1978), The Gospel of John (Vol. 1)
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Christian Quotation of the Day
September 23, 1999

    That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out
ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones.  Let Jones
worship the sun or moon -- anything rather than the Inner
Light; let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any
in his street, but not the god within.  Christianity came into
the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man
had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards, to behold
with astonishment and enthusiasm a divine company and a divine
captain.  The only fun of being a Christian was that a man was
not left alone with the Inner Light, but definitely recognized
an outer light, fair as the sun, clear as the moon, terrible as
an army with banners.
                         ... G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy [1909]
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Christian Quotation of the Day
May 18, 1999

    Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he
pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly because much
of what he pleases, except he know he must obey God, is
low-down disgusting and partly because, even when he pleases to
do something decent, he is mostly too weak-willed and too
addle-pated to bring the same to good effect. Man must be
redeemed by a power outside himself.  I do not regard the
over-determined "optimists" as silly; they seem to me only the
victims of a wishful thinking.
          ... Bernard Iddings Bell (1886-1958), God is Not Dead
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Christian Quotation of the Day
August 10, 1999

    As Christians, and followers of Jesus, we have not taken
pride half seriously enough.  But the Devil has.  The Devil
knows that as long as he can control human pride it does not
matter how many prayer meetings, how many services, how much
devotion goes on -- he can still wrack any group of Christians,
sooner or later, and frustrate God's purpose for them, and for
the world.
             ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn (1887-1950) _______________________________________________________________

Christian Quotation of the Day
June 12, 1999

    It is in vain, 0 men, that you seek within yourselves the
cure for your miseries.  All your insight only leads you to the
knowledge that it is not in yourselves that you will discover
the true and the good.  The philosophers promised them to you,
and have not been able to keep their promises...  Your
principal maladies are pride, which cuts you off from God, and
sensuality, which binds you to the earth; and they have done
nothing but foster at least one of these maladies.  If they
have given you God for your object, it has only been to pander
to your pride; they have made you think that you were like Him
and resembled Him by your nature.  And those who have grasped
the vanity of such a pretension have cast you down into the
other abyss by making you believe that your nature was like
that of the beasts of the field, and have led you to seek your
good in lust, which is the lot of animals.
                                  ... Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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