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PRIDE AND HUMILITYPRIDEis an ugly sin to God. “The devil is content that people should excel in good works, provided he can make them proud of them” (William Law). “Pride is the idolatrous worship of ourselves, and that is the national religion of hell” (Alan Redpath). To be full of self is to be empty of God. Grace and humility bow the knee to a Holy God who alone can sustain and keep us free from the corrupting influence of self. The highway of holiness is a valley trail in the direction of humility. The trail will lead you on a path of death to self. If we can daily see life as tests we are going through, tests that allow us to humble ourselves, we are on the right highway. "The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem" (C.H. Spurgeon). Learn to welcome the opportunity to die daily to self. HUMILITY is the perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done to me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble. The humble person is not one who thinks meanly of himself; he simply does not think of himself at all. (Andrew Murray).