" The great pastor and hymn-writer John Newton once wrote about this struggle: If I may speak my own experience, I find that to keep my eye simply on Christ, as my peace and my life, is by far the hardest part of my calling. . . . It seems easier to deny self in a thousand instances of outward conduct, than in its ceaseless endeavors to act as a principle of righteousness and power.124 "

― Timothy J. Keller , Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters