Charles Teixeira

“A third complication is that the same tradition that held pride to be a sin and humility a virtue has often been dominated by whites who have preached humility to blacks, by men who have preached submissiveness to women, by rigid and unimaginative persons who have regarded every creative impulse, every struggle for personal dignity, as a shameful show of arrogance. In the eyes of such persons, anyone who wanted mere self-respect was cheeky. What is troubling is that the advocates of humility and submissiveness have often had a personal stake in the popularity of these virtues and have therefore made adopting them look like the project of a special-interest group. In”
― Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin

“The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon”
― Charles Spurgeon

“If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.”
― Dietrich bonhoeffer , Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.”
― Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin