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What seemed luck with him was only good judgment and promptness in seizing opportunities, and the greatest care and zeal in personal attention to all the details of his business and the management of his own affairs. Humility is the true cure for many a needless heartache. A. Montague It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. Lord Peterborough
Wise men of the Jewish and Pagan world built on this foundation, and the Christian can build on none other. Having combined learning with these essential virtues, a liberal, symmetrical, comprehensive character may be built up. In the formation of such a character, industry, powers of observation, strength of will and intellectual humility, are requisite.
Thus has God, as he reflected with a self-condemnatory emotion of humility, chosen the base things of the world and those which are despised yea, and the things which are not, to bring to nought the things which are. His heart, hungry of all martyrdom, all saintly doings, went forth to welcome the idea.
And as this is the glory of the creature, so this is the only redemption, and the only glory of every redeemed soul, to be empty and as nothing before God; to wait upon Him, and to let God be all in all. Humility has a prominent place in almost every epistle of the New Testament.
Dodge, in particular, "and must have entered places of worship in other parts of the world. Did not the simple beauty of the manner in which all classes, the great and the humble, the rich and the poor, kneel in a common humility before the altar, strike you agreeably, on such occasions; in Catholic countries, in particular?" "Bless me! no, Mr. John Effingham.
But when no fault requires it, all are equal according to the estimation of humility." Natalis, archbishop of Salona, in Dalmatia, had given the Pope much trouble. The Pope deals with him tenderly in more than one letter. Had either of the four patriarchs done this, so great an act of contumacy could not have been passed over without the most grievous scandal.
"O my great God!" she would say, "grant me humility, and help me to serve Thee as Thou commandest, in fear and trembling." "I am now near my end," she wrote two years before her death, "and I have yet done nothing worthy of a soul soon to appear before God.
The father says, 'Take them all off him, and put the best robe upon him. What does that mean? Well, we all know the very familiar metaphor by which qualities of mind, traits of character, and the like are described as being the dress of the spirit. We talk about being 'arrayed in purity, 'clad in zeal, 'clothed with humility, 'vested with power, and so on.
Perhaps he was startled by this sight, and therefore drew back and let Peter enter the sepulchre first; but it is likewise very possible that the reason of his not mentioning the circumstance in his gospel was because humility made him anxious to conceal the fact of his having been more highly favoured than Peter.
With due humility, I confess that I have attempted to assume a role which belongs to Providence, and that no man has a right to do.
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