“In the name of liberty professing Christians glut themselves with luxuries, entertainments and sensuous pleasures. Under the banner of freedom men give the reins to their thirst for wealth, women dress immodestly, feeding vanity which loves attention, and youth abandon themselves to athletics and leisure. When self is fed in this manner it becomes brazen and runs to excess, crowding God out of the heart… They begin again to serve themselves rather than the Lord.” ~ Walter J. Chantry
More on Self-Denial & Christian Liberty
- Shadow of the Cross: Studies in Self Denial by Walter Chantry
- Jesus Christ: Self Denial or Self Esteem? by David Tyler
- On Christian Liberty by Martin Luther
