Gaze of the Soul

"Like the eye which sees everything in front if it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One. While he looks at Christ, the very things he has so long been trying to do will be getting done within him. It will be God working in him to will and to do."

                                                        A.W. Tozer in The Pursuit of God