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Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the divine glory.
Murray's short book on humility as the beauty of holiness. He traces it in Christ, and in the low place a Christian is called to take.
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In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.
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Humility is the very essence of holiness as of blessedness. It is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God. Where God is all, self is nothing.
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And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
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Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.