# “Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ” by A.W. Tozer

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- Published: 2019-06-10T12:00:29-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence,
self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love, and a host of others like them. They
dwell too deep within us and are too much a part of our natures to come to our attention
until the light of God is focused upon them.

The grosser manifestations of these sins – egotism, exhibitionism, self-promotion–
are strangely tolerated in Christian leaders, even in circles of impeccable orthodoxy.
They are so much in evidence as actually, for many people, to become identified 
with the gospel.

I trust it is not a cynical observation to say that they appear these days to be
a requisite for popularity in some sections of the church visible.

Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to 
excite little notice.”

–A.W. Tozer, [_The Pursuit of God_](https://amzn.to/2KEZAOp), in [_Three Spiritual Classics in One Volume_](https://amzn.to/2KEZAOp)(
Chicago: Moody Publishers, 1948), 253.

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