The less we feel we need to address pride, the more it has already blinded us.

To love God is to cooperate with His grace. And

Humility can't be bought at a bargain price. It's the long working of grace upon grace within the hurts of our hearts. Humility

If I can be honest, the real problem with the gap in my countertop was my own pride. It's a sign of imperfection, and I don't like my imperfections to show. Lord, please set my heart free from these prideful tendencies.

Too much revelation and I'd pridefully run ahead of You. Too little and I'd be paralyzed with fear.

To love God is to cooperate with His grace.

Ms. Babylon has thus come to see herself as God: "I shall always be here, mistress forever... I and I alone am still here" (Is 47:7, 8). No superpower can ever imagine it will cease to be in power, but this means its pretension is quasi-divine and must be corrected.

Wine is good in itself, but not for a man in a fever. If our souls were in perfect health, riches and authority, and strong powers of mind, would be very suitable to us: but they are weak and diseased, and require so great a grace of God to bear these advantages well, that we may be well content to be without them.

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.