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We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God’s feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God’s share in it is felt as a tribute...more

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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in ...more

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I call this a Divine Humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to him...more

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We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our...more

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Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them...more

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... A man is not usually called upon to have an opinion of his own talents at all, since he can very well go on improving them to the best of his abil...more

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We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some ...more

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He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inconsistent... by exploiting his vanity. He can... en...more

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I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my opinions. My religion would not be in ruins if this...more

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Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).

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The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in th...more

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Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

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Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing-...more

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When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from th...more

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The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very ofte...more