Question posed on pp. 59-60 (Do we look to our own self-reliance, or do we recognize that our own good works and good intentions are flawed in such a way as to make things worse?) "On Our Knees"
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"The self is persistent. Quietly, subtly, ingeniously, it works itself back to the center. We have professional careers to advance. We have institutional responsibilities to maintain. We have families to feed and lawns to mow. We have causes to which we have invested huge chunks of our identity. At one point we found our center in "the Lord says" but an urgent concern distracted, or a novel concern engrossed us. We are still, of course, religious, but it has gradually become a comforting, steadying background to the center-staged self." p. 40 Where your treasure is, by Eugene H. Peterson (Inter-varsity 1985)
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