Pride is the deification of self, and this today in some of us is not of the Pharisee, but of the publican. To say 'Oh, I'm no saint', is acceptable to human pride, but it is unconscious blasphemy against God. It literally means that you defy God to make you a saint. 'I am much too weak and hopeless, I am outside the reach of the Atonement'. Humility before men may be unconscious blasphemy before God. Why are you not a saint? It is either that you do not want to be a saint, or that you do not believe God can make you one.
--Oswald Chambers
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
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