personal development on Standards

Loving father, there are times when it feels like we never get it right. We compare ourselves to others and we don’t measure up. It seems like we can never get our act together and live up to the stan...

A Christian should constantly seek ... highest standards and employ the most demanding comparisons for [his self-] evaluations.

The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought that takes success for its standards.

To know oneself, is above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against the Truth, and not the other way around.

If Jesus sets the divine standard for morality, I could now have an unwavering foundation for my choices and decisions, rather than basing them on the ever-shifting sands of expediency and self-center...