To lose the inner self (Brennan Manning)

  The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior.  Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume.  I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds…. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin:  to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

--Brennan Manning, 
The Ragamuffin Gospel

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