Scott Caesar

“The one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen (1 John 4:20). What a sobering thought, that our love for God is measured by our everyday interaction with men and the love it displays. Our love for God will be found to be an illusion, except where it is proven by the test of daily life with our fellow man. It is the same with our humility. It is easy to think we humble ourselves before God, but humility towards men will be the only sufficient proof that our humility before God is real. It will be the only proof that humility has taken up its residence in us, and become our very nature, the only proof that we, like Christ, have made ourselves of no reputation. When lowliness of heart has become not a posture we assume for a time, when we think of Him or pray to Him, but the very spirit of our life, then it will become obvious in all our behavior towards our brethren. This lesson is one of critical importance. The only humility that is really ours is not the humility we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us and actively live in our ordinary conduct. The insignificant matters of daily life are the important tests of eternity because they prove what Spirit truly dwells within us. It is in our most unguarded moments that we really show and see what we are. To know the humble man, to know how the humble man behaves, you must follow him in the common course of daily life.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Beauty of Holiness

“August Francke, insisted that they place greater value on a “drop of true love more than a sea of knowledge.” On the foundation of this movement”
― James W. Goll, The Lost Art of Practicing His Presence

“By the world I mean all ways of judging, regarding, and thinking, whether political, economical, ecclesiastical, social, or individual, which are not divine, which are not God's ways of thinking and regarding. I mean all ways of thinking which do not take God into account and do not set his will supreme as the one only law of life. I mean all ways of thinking which do not care for the truth of things but exalt the customs of society and its practices, which heed not what is right but the usage of the time.”
― George MacDonald, Your Life in Christ: Selected Sermons

“The best way to see divine light
is to put out thy own candle.
—Thomas Fuller, D.D.”
― Verne Nesbitt, The Servant King: Revelations of Majesty in Christ’s Humility