Quotes about Subtraction

Pride lives on the defensive against anyone and anything that tries to subtract from its self-sustained worth. Confidence, on the other hand, is driven by the certainty of God-given identity and the conviction that nothing can take that identity away.

The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction," wrote the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart.

If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.