"Your real, new self (which is Christ’s and
also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as
you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does
that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more
everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good
impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of
impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who
bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply
try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been
told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without
ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to
bottom, 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
submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life.
Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really
yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the
dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred,
loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you
will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”
I think that was exactly what I needed right now. Thanks so much. x)
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite quotes. x)
ReplyDelete:) I'm glad you both benefited from it as much as I did!
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