christian living on True Self

In her memoir, Confessions of a Good Christian Girl, Tammy describes the internal turmoil she experienced trying to be a good, rule-following Christian who had unexpectedly built an entire life arou...

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end...

Now I have to ask you: If Jesus Christ, the Son of God, did not presume to face the forces of evil in the world without a profound knowledge of the Bible in mind and heart, how could we try to face li...

A true Christian is both a beggar and an heir.

Until you have given up your “self” to Him you will not have a real self.

Busyness allows us to avoid the deepest questions of our souls. It keeps us at arm's length from our truest, most authentic selves. And when we don't know our deepest, most authentic selves, w...

Define yourself radically as beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is an illusion.

We do not find our true self by seeking it. Rather, we find it by seeking God.

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior.