Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.
– Charles Wesley –
Humility
August 1, 2012
Unwillingness to accept God’s “way of escape” from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within.
– Jim Elliot –
July 30, 2012
Many would be scantily clad if clothed in humility.
– Unknown –
July 29, 2012
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
– Bernard of Clairvaux –
July 25, 2012
Humility is not so much a grace or virus along with; it is the root of all, because it alone assumes the right attitude before God and allows Him as God to do all.
– Andrew Murray –
from Humility
July 22, 2012
But if the path we tread be rough and lowly; it is that in which our great Exemplar has gone before. Going down into the valley of humiliation we walk in His footsteps.
– John Dawson –
from The Saviour in the Workshop
July 16, 2012
It is always unpleasant to be spoken against, and forsaken, and lied about, and to stand alone. But there is no help for it. The cup which our Master drank must be drunk by His disciples.
– JC Ryle –
from his book Holiness
July 15, 2012
Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.
– Brother Lawrence –
from The Practice of the Presence of God
July 13, 2012
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
– CS Lewis –