“All our heartaches and a great many of our physical ills spring directly out of our sins. Pride, arrogance, resentfulness, evil imaginings, malice, greed: these are the sources of more human pain than all the diseases that ever afflicted mortal flesh.” (p110)
“The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto.” (p113)
“To all the victims of the gnawing disease (pretense) Jesus says, ‘Ye must become as little children.’ For little children do not compare; they receive direct enjoyment from what they have without relating it to something else or someone else.” (p114-115)
“Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus’ feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased.” (p115)
“The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.” (p116)
-AW Tozer
The Pursuit of God
Teaching Adventures 