Quotes about Self-focus

Sin holds the physical glories of the here-and-now world in front of you and tells you that they are the only glories worth living for. Sin shrinks your zeal and narrows your vision. Sin makes it hard to see beyond the borders of your own life. Grace enables you to tear down fences of self-focus, self-defensiveness, and self-protection so you can reach out to God and others. In so doing you will not only experience true glory, but you will recapture your true humanity.

Marriage is meant to expose your self-focus and self-reliance. It is meant to convince you that you are needier than you thought you were and to encourage you that God's grace has more power to transform than you thought it did. Marriage is meant to teach you how to give, love, serve, forgive, support, encourage, and wait. Think

Rebellion is the inborn tendency to give in to the lies of autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-focus. It results

Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.<3

Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber