"Both people
crippled by inferiority feelings and those who have superiority
complexes are centered on themselves, obsessed with how they look and
how that are being perceived and treated. It would be easy to help
someone out of an inferiority complex into a superiority complex and
leave them no better furnished to live life well… There is the essence
of sin, according to the Bible [2 Cor. 5:15] - living for ourselves,
rather than for God and the people around us."
— Timothy Keller and Kathy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God (New York: Penguin Group, 2011), p.63
Hmm. Self-awareness is good. God-awareness is even better.
Things to note while comforting self or others.
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