The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.
Interpretation
Acknowledging our limitations and yielding to a higher power can lead to personal growth.
This quote by Aiden Wilson Tozer emphasizes the importance of surrendering control and recognizing our own limits in order to foster true progress and inner peace. It suggests that many people struggle in life because they continuously attempt to dictate their own paths without allowing for divine influence or guidance, which can hinder their spiritual and personal development.
In practice
In a motivational speech emphasizing the importance of humility and openness to change.
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, ‘What is God like?’ and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.
It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.
Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.
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