Category: death to self

Perfect love is a kind of self-dereliction, a wandering out of ourselves; it is a kind of voluntary death, wherein the lover dies to himself, and all his own …

…I thank Thee that Thou art risen from the dead, that at this very moment Thou dost indwell me in the person and power of Thy divine Spirit; that …

If at any time you feel disposed again to say, “It is enough,” and that you can bear of the burden of life no longer, do as Elijah did, …

There is no escaping the cross. You will feel either pain in your body or tribulation in your spirit. Sometimes you will feel deserted by God. Sometimes your neighbor …

Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a divine center, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity …

Jesus… says it’s murder when we destroy people with our words. It’s murder when we put people down and treat them as insignificant. ~Rebecca Manley Pippert For no good …

If we are wise, we will do what Jesus said: endure the cross and despise its shame for the joy that is set before us. To do this is …

Whoever does not want to know the will of God is mentally walking a path next to a cliff, and easily falls with any wind. If he is praised, …