[i]"The best and safest course is to study humility. There ought to be nothing flashy or cock-sure in the Christian. Humility is a poor, threadbare, unpretty and unwelcome guest at the world's table. The man of God, however, ought to see that humility is the spirit [i][color=CC0000]of heaven itself[/color][i]and [i][color=990000]the mind of Christ.[/color][i]It is the meek whom God favors with his grace and they will be given their heart's desire. The rest he will feed with husks and not with the rich blessings of his love.
[i]'He that is down need fear no fall,' declared Bunyan sagely. That is the golden rule. It is the believer's reassurance in times when tempted to envy the proud. [i][color=990000]All the best blessings are on the bottom shelf.[/color][i]The man who stoops low may be ridiculed by the worldly-wise. But the humble man will be on his feet when others are in the ditch. Then let humility be our study every day that we live."
-- Maurice Roberts, [u]The Thought of God
