Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
– JC Ryle –
Humility
It is sweet to be nothing – David Brainerd
It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.
– David Brainerd –
Self-Giving Love – Bill Ury
Holiness is nothing less than self-giving love. More than conceptual, this love is tangibly self-offering, self-dispensing, and self-emptying. It is the essence of biblical discipleship.
– Bill Ury –
Meekness is His method – AW Tozer
Jesus calls us to His rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.
– AW Tozer –
God uses weak men – Hudson Taylor
God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on Him.
– Hudson Taylor –
Closer to heaven – JC Ryle
I am persuaded the more light we have, the more we see our own sinfulness: the nearer we get to heaven, the more we are clothed with humility.
– JC Ryle –
Claiming Bible Verses – Eric Metaxas
Another version of the “Prosperity Gospel” or “Name It and Claim It” teaching has to do with finding a verse in the Bible and then “claiming” that verse. Proponents of this thinking believe that God must fulfill his promise to us in whatever verse we are “claiming”… We need to have faith in what the Bible says, but we have to be careful that we aren’t trying to force God to do what we want. That is arrogance rather than humility. God loves us, but we cannot demand things of him as though our faith is in charge rather than God.
– Eric Metaxas –
Let the power of Christ rest on me – Thomas Chalmers
My God, Thou knowest my infirmities; and Thou knowest my desire to overcome them. Send forth Thy Spirit to help me in this warfare. Give me wisdom, O God, and the meekness of wisdom. Let the power of Christ rest upon me.
– Thomas Chalmers –
Throne of Grace – Thomas Watson
Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.
– Thomas Watson –