"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...
Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.
~ C. S. Lewis ~
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Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.
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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...
"As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down ...
"There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any ...
"Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person...
"The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to...
"We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.
"When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, ThouSaw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead
". . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.
"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...
"Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, r...
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"Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is worthy of all honour) will know that I have served Tash al...