Pride & Humility

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Do not call yourself Lutherans, call yourself Christians. Has Luther been crucified for the world?

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

Human pride will be brought down, and human arrogance will be humbled. Only the Lord will be exalted on that day of judgment.

Isaiah 2:11
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

A farmer promised to give the Lord one of the twin calves his cow delivered. His wife asked him, “which calf is the Lord’s?” He answered, “It really doesn’t make any difference whose calf is whose. I’ll give God one of them when they’ve grown.” A few weeks later he came into the farmhouse, sadness hanging on his face. His wife asked, “What’s wrong?” He replied, “Well, the Lord’s calf died this morning.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

“Tis very hard to behold our own gifts without pride, and the gifts of others without envy.

Vavasor Powell

This Day's Verse

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Acts 22:16
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

God’s fingers can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

George MacDonald

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Even though the night darkens your spirit, its purpose is to impart light. Even though it humbles you, revealing the depth of your wretchedness, its purpose is to exalt and uplift you. Even though it empties you of all feeling and detaches you from all natural pleasures, its purpose is to fill you with spiritual joy and attach you to the source of that joy.

John of the Cross

This Day's Verse

“Talk no more so very proudly; Let no arrogance come from your mouth, For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him actions are weighed.”

1 Samuel 2:3
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Don’t try to deal with sin, for you are sure to lose. Deal with Christ; let him deal with your sin and you are sure to win.

Arthur Elfstrand

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Let us always bear about us such impressions of reverence, and fear of God, that we may humble ourselves before his almightiness, and express that infinite distance between his infiniteness and our weaknesses.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

“Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith.”

Habakkuk 2:4
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Blaise Pascal

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

It is for the sake of man, not of God, that worship and prayers are required; that man may be made better—that he may be confirmed in a proper sense of his dependent state, and acquire those pious and virtuous dispositions in which his highest improvement consists.

Hugh Blair

This Day's Verse

A man’s pride will bring him low, But a humble spirit will obtain honor.

Proverbs 29:23
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Reprise

There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.

Arthur Hopkins

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

God had given me this lesson that I could still be imperfect and be loved. That’s how God loves us. We humans are terrible at loving one another. We’re terrible at keeping peace. We’re terrible at running the world and using our free will but for some reason God loves us all anyway.

Monica Clare

This Day's Verse

“But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!”

Amos 5:24
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Meditation is like a needle after which comes a thread of gold, composed of affections, prayers and resolutions.

Alphonsus Liguori

This Day's Verse

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

James 4:10
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

The stars shine over the mountains, the stars shine over the sea.
The stars look up to the mighty God, the stars look down on me;
The stars shall last for a million years, a million years and a day.
But God and I will live and love when the stars have passed away.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

C. H. Spurgeon

This Day's Verse

The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.

Proverbs 22:4
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

I set out to find a friend but couldn’t find one; I set out to be a friend, and friends were everywhere.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

How paltry must be the devotions of those who are always in a hurry.

William Law

This Day's Verse

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.

Philippians 2:3-4
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

They were wending homeward from the village kirk when Mrs. Mactavish said to Mrs. Macleod: “And what did you think of the young minister’s sermon this morning?” “Weel,” said Mrs. Macleod thoughtfully, “I find three faults with his sermon: frstly, he read it; secondly, he dinna read well; and thirdly, it wasn’t worth readin.”

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God’s purposes and man’s praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

E. M. Bounds

This Day's Verse

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs 26:12
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

We are anxious to win our friends to our political beliefs or new diet fads, but our religion we keep strictly to ourselves.

The Upper Room

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