The proposal of the self-life came in very fascinating guise to him. ❋ S.D. Gordon (N/A)
Yet there is a self-life or a self-will that shrinks more or less from the will of God until we enter the Canaan of entire sanctification. ❋ Robert Lee Berry (N/A)
Jesus was intensely human in His earthly life -- He repeatedly said a never-varying "no" to the self-life, and lived a constant victory until the very last triumphant shout of victory on Calvary. ❋ S.D. Gordon (N/A)
I am Jacob -- supplanter, sinner, and then He blessed him there; Jabbok means extinguishment, and Jacob's self-life was extinguished there. ❋ Dougan Clark (N/A)
The self-life was alluringly and repeatedly presented to Him by Satan, in the wilderness, in the remark of Peter, by the visit of the Greeks, in Gethsemane where the struggle of soul almost broke the tie that held body and spirit together, and many other times. ❋ S.D. Gordon (N/A)
It is woven of the fine threads of the self-life, the hyphenated sins of the human spirit. ❋ Unknown (1930)
We must confess, forsake, repudiate the self-life, and then reckon it crucified. ❋ Unknown (1930)
Rend the veil of our self-life from the top down as Thou didst rend the veil of the Temple. ❋ Unknown (1930)
It is the close-woven veil of the self-life which we have never truly acknowledged, of which we have been secretly ashamed, and which for these reasons we have never brought to the judgment of the cross. ❋ Unknown (1930)
The human being is elevated to a self-life of a universal kind, and this frees him from the ties and appeals of the world of sense and selfishness. ❋ Unknown (1913)
But this can only be by renouncing our self-life, and reuniting ourselves to the whole of Crystalman's world. ❋ David Lindsay (1910)
The “old man” is, of course, the self-life, and this self-life (which we know only too well is indeed corrupt according to deceitful lusts) is not to be improved, but to be “put off.” ❋ Unknown (1905)
Let us stop trying to do something for our own poor miserable self-life, and begin to try to do something to help the spiritual lives of others. ❋ Unknown (1905)
The Bible law in regard to the self-life is not that the self-life must be watched and made better, but that it must be “put off.” ❋ Unknown (1905)
And self-examination with all its miseries often gives a sort of morbid satisfaction to the self-life in us, and even deludes self into thinking it ❋ Unknown (1905)
I cannot explain this theologically, but I can fearlessly assert that it is a tremendous practical reality; and that those souls who abandon the self-life, and give themselves up the Lord to be fully possessed by Him, do find that He takes possession of the inner springs of their being, and works there to will and to do of His good pleasure. ❋ Unknown (1905)
The self-life of man has ceased, is crucified; nevertheless he lives, yet not he, but it is Christ that liveth in him. ❋ Charles Ebert Orr (1897)
He feels a sense of impatience, not carnal, but as an impulse of sense in the self-life. ❋ Charles Ebert Orr (1897)
Suppose you fill this hollow figure with a kind of life which we shall call self-life. ❋ Charles Ebert Orr (1897)
But here is the secret: it is man ceasing to live the self-life and Christ living in him. ❋ Charles Ebert Orr (1897)
