The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Because you are human, you will continue to make mistakes. Thinking that you should live an error-free life is symptomatic of pride.

But humans want to usurp the place of God, making themselves the center of the Story.

when we peer into our own hearts, we will have sufficient cause — even laughably ridiculous cause — to see our own sin and be humbled before God. That will lead us to an other-awareness that our fellow disciples and humans are like us, sinners in need of mercy, grace, forgiveness, and patience. This reversal of the proclivity to be gods creates on our part a tenderness in our perception of the sins of others.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been offered a role in a sequel to 'The Terminator.' In this one he travels back in time and kills the person who suggested he run for governor.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:

If I be not in a state of Grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.