 To take and receive all things not in ourselves, but in God, is the true and excellent way of dying to ourselves and living only to God. Author: Madame Guyon |
| O monster justly abhorred of God and man! after being humiliated in so many ways, I cannot become humble, and I am so pampered with pride, that when I most endeavor to be humble, I set about my own praises! Author: Madame Guyon |
| The harmlessness of the dove consists in not judging another; the wisdom of the serpent in distrusting ourselves. Author: Madame Guyon |
| Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you. Author: Joni Eareckson Tada |
| Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times. Author: Smith Wigglesworth |
| If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord. Author: Harry Ironside |
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| The lesson for each believer is to humble himself, not to wait for the Lord to humble him. Author: Theodore Epp |
| No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Author: Phillips Brooks |
| The feet of the humblest may walk in the field, Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed. Author: Phillips Brooks |
| The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. Author: Phillips Brooks |
| There is nothing in the world that works such satanic, profound, God-defiant pride as false assurance; nothing works such utter humility, or brings to such utter self-emptiness, as the child-like spirit of true assurance. Author: A.A. Hodge |
| Now, as always, God discloses Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond. Author: A.W. Tozer
Source: The Pursuit of God |
