Sermon Illustrations about Self-deception
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How to Become a Dunce
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast the less he knows of it.
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Transcendent Boldness
There is a false boldness for Christ that only comes from pride. A man may rashly expose himself to the world's dislike and even deliberately provoke ...
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Lost Responsibility
The single greatest loss in my time has been the idea that we are moral agents. Religion helped a great deal here. Religion taught that we are accountable ...
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Knowledge of Our Neediness
In our more honest moments, all of us know what needy people we are.
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Saying Versus Doing
It is not what men eat, but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain, but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read, but what ...
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Inflated Self-Image
Sometimes we are moved by compassion and think it zeal. We blame small things in others, and pass over greater things in ourselves. Quickly enough we ...
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Wanted: Better Self-Critics
It would be wonderful if St. Augustine's kind of confessional self-scrutiny (or that of St. John of the Cross in his Dark Night of the Soul) would ...
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Blindness to Badness
The real danger in our situation lies in the fact that so many people see clearly what they are revolting from and so few see at all what they are revolting ...
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Earnestness: Proof of Holiness?
One trouble with earnestness is that those who are possessed by it so often take it as proof certain that they are on God's side.
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