GOSPEL DELTA

Put Your Humility in the Right Place

// March 2nd, 2010 // Doctrine, Life

“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert-himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason [The Gospel]. . . . The new skeptic is so humble that he doubts if he can even learn. . . . There is a real humility typical of our time; but it so happens that it’s practically a more poisonous humility than the wildest prostrations of the ascetic. . . . The old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which makes him stop working altogether. . . . We are on the road to producing a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.”  – G.K Chesterton

 

Un-Gospel character:

prideful about yourself and your efforts

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humble about the Truth

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Cowardice

  

Gospel character:

humble about yourself and your efforts

+

prideful about the Truth

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Courage