Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

Humility is not putting yourself down or denying your strengths; rather, it is being honest about your weaknesses. The more honest you are, the more of God's grace you get.

If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (Rom. 7:18). As someone has said, even the spirituality we do possess is corrupted by our nature. We have nothing to brag about. On the contrary, God must always give us grace to bear with our faults and mercy to forgive our sins.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

The Flower that smells the sweetest is Shy and Lowly.