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Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us but specifically to self-sacrifice, not to unselfing ourselves but to unselfishing ourselves. Self-denial for its own sake is in its very nature ascetic, monkish. It concentrates our whole attention on self—self-knowledge, self-control - and can therefore eventuate in nothing other than the very apotheosis of selfishness. At best it succeeds only in subjecting the outer self to the inner self or the lower self to the higher self, and only the more surely falls into the slough of self-seeking, that it partially conceals the selfishness of its goal by refining its ideal of self and excluding its grosser and more outward elements. Self-denial, then, drives to the cloister, narrows and contracts the soul, murders within us all innocent desires, dries up all the springs of sympathy, and nurses and coddles our self-importance until we grow so great in our own esteem as to be careless of the trials and sufferings, the joys and aspirations, the strivings and failures and successes of our fellow-men. Self-denial, thus understood, will make us cold, hard, unsympathetic—proud, arrogant, self-esteeming—fanatical, overbearing, cruel. It may make monks and Stoics, it cannot make Christians.

B.B. Warfield

We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Roasted Pears With Amaretti And Amaretto

January 29, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Sami	November 19	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3	T	Di Saronno Amaretto or other
		almond-flavored liqueur
1	T	Balsamic vinegar
4		Firm-ripe Bartlett pears
		halved lengthwise
		and cored
1/3	c	Water
4		Amaretti cookies, Italian
		almond
		macaroons 1
		inches in
		diameter crumbled

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 425Ã¸F.  Mix Amaretto and vinegar in a 13- by 9-inch
baking dish. Put pears,  cut sides down, in dish.  Roast pears 15
minutes. Add water and roast until pears are tender but  still hold
their shape, 8 to 10 minutes more.  Arrange pears, cut sides up, on a
platter and spoon pan juices over  them. Sprinkle with half of cookie
crumbs, then baste with pan  juices. Sprinkle with remaining crumbs and
serve warm or at room  temperature.  Makes 4 servings.  Gourmet
November 1999  Converted by MC_Buster.  Per serving: 2 Calories (kcal);
0g Total Fat; (0% calories from fat);  0g Protein; 1g Carbohydrate; 0mg
Cholesterol; 3mg Sodium Food  Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat;
0 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 0 Fat;  0 Other Carbohydrates  Converted by
MM_Buster v2.0n.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 1565 Calories From Fat: 425 Total Fat: 48.8g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 954.5mg Potassium: 617.8mg Carbohydrates: 280g Fiber: 6.9g Sugar: 273.7g Protein: 13.9g