Mike Panton
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If you ask do I understand what is thus revealed in Scripture, I say “no.” But my faith bows down before the inspired Word and I unhesitatingly believe the great things of God when even reason is blinded and the intellect confused.
“Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.”
― Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
“Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.”
― Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
“Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.”
― Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
“It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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