Do well, as well as say well. Be zealous of good works. Spare not for any cost, if it may promote your Master’s work. Maintain your innocence, and walk without offence. Let your lives condemn sin, and persuade men to duty. There is no virtue wherein […]
True humility gives God alone the honor A saying of Chrysostom’s has always pleased me very much, that the foundation of our philosophy is humility. But that of Augustine pleases me even more: “When a certain rhetorician was asked what was the chief rule in eloquence, […]
When the corn is near ripe, it bows the head, and stoops lower than when it was green. When the people of God are near ripe for heaven, they grow more humble and self-denying, than in the days of their first profession. The longer a saint […]
Worship must be done humbly It is not worship without humility. They who worship have a deep sense of their own vileness. In Scripture the saints of the Most High in all their addresses to God, have always low thoughts of themselves. As the centurion, Matt […]
There must be humility if we mean to be at peace For it is only by pride that men make contention, but humility pulls down the heart and makes it pliant and easy to be dealt with. But where wrongs lie heavy, sin lies light; where […]