Augustine Quote

"To possess my God, the humble Jesus, I was not yet humble enough" (Augustine Confessions Bk. VII, xvii (24) Pg. 128)

Augustine Quote

"With what mercy you have shown humanity the way of humility in that your 'Word was made flesh and dwelt among' men (Jn. 1:14)....For you have hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to babes, that toiling and burdened they should come to him to be restored....But those who, like actors, wear the high boots of a supposedly more sublime teaching do not hear him who says 'Learn of me, that I am meek and humble in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls' (Matt. 11:29). Even if they know 'God, they do not glorify him as God or give thanks, but are lost in their own thought and their foolish heart is obscured; professing themselves wise, they have become fools'(Rom. 1: 21-3)" (Augustine Confessions 121,122).

Scougal Quote

"That which makes any body esteem us, is their knowledge or apprehension of some little good, and their ignorance of a great deal of evil that may be in us; were they thoroughly acquainted with us, they would quickly change their opinion. The thoughts that pass in our heart in the best and most serious day of our life, being exposed unto public view, would render us either hateful or ridiculous (Scougal, The Life of God in the Soul of Man Pg. 129.

Scougal Quote

"The humble person hath the advantage, when he is despised, that none can think more meanly of him than he doth of himself; and therefroe he is not troubled at the matter, but can easily bear those reproaches which wound the other to the soul" (Henry Scougal The Life of God in the Soul of Man Pg. 81).