Jun 1, 2019
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.
Henry Allen Ironside
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All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.
Henry Allen Ironside
"The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail."
--Ramakrishna
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.
Henry Allen Ironside
The idea of self-effort is paradoxical. Another way of understanding self-effort is as surrender to God. There are times in our spiritual evolution, whether or not the Kundalini is awakened, when there is a clear message from our inner teacher that it is time to take the next step. It way not be convenient or easy. Self-effort is choosing to follow that message no matter what the price.
Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet by Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
In this world whatever is gained is gained only by self-effort; where failure is encountered it is seen that there has been slackness in the effort. This is obvious; but what is called fate is fictitious and is not seen.
This was on a meditation app I started using.
Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.
Martin Delany
I did it my way!
Yet, how many there are who are trying, like Cain of old, to please God, not in God's way but in their own. They are seeking to climb over the high curtain by self-righteousness and self-effort, or by religion, but says our Lord of such,
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber. (John 10:1)
Herbert Lockyer, All the Messianic Prophecies of the Bible, p. 366
- The Muslim will take their pilgrimage, the Jehovah's Witness their works, the Buddhist their desire to desire nothing, the atheist their nothing, the Hindu their payment et al.....and none of these endeavors will be able to climb their adherents into heaven.
FOLLOWING HIM
by Neil Anderson
September 15 Matthew 16:24 If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him . . . follow MeSeeking to overcome self by self-effort is a hopeless struggle. Self will never cast out self, because an independent self motivated by the flesh still wants to be God. We must follow Christ by being led by the Holy Spirit down the path of death to self-rule. As Paul wrote: “We who live are…
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