God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
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
Chips Ahoy Ice Cream Cake
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CATEGORY
CUISINE
TAG
YIELD
Dairy
Cakes, Chocolate, Ice cream
12
Servings
INGREDIENTS
32
Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies
1/4
c
Margarine, melted
1
c
Chocolate fudge topping
2
qt
Ice cream, any combination of flavors
INSTRUCTIONS
prepared whipped topping for garnish strawberries or maraschino cherries,
for garnish
Finely roll 20 cookies. Combine cookie crumbs and margarine. Press onto
bottom of 9-inch springform pan or pie plate; stand remaining cookies
around edge of pan or pie plate. Spread 3/4 cup fudge topping over prepared
crust. Freeze about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, soften 1 qt. ice cream. Spread softened ice cream over fudge
layer. Freeze about 30 minutes. Scoop remaining ice cream into balls;
arrange over ice cream layer. Freeze until firm, about 4 hours overnight.
To serve, garnish with whipped topping, remaining fudge topping,
strawberries or maraschino cherries. Serve immediately. Makes 12 servings.
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