Humility: True Greatness - 7 March 2009 |
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I’m becoming quite a fan of C. J. Mahaney, and especially his book Humility: True Greatness. And I’m not the only one. According to Carl Trueman, it’s ‘a deceptively easy but devastating read. Counter-cultural and deeply Christian, it is perhaps the most important book I’ve read for a long time.’
He’s plundered the spiritual Greats for great one-liners, like this one, from John Stott:
At every stage of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend. (p. 29)
Or this, from John Calvin:
God cannot bear with seeing his glory appropriated by the creature in even the smallest degree, so intolerable to him is the sacrilegious arrogance of those who, by praising themselves, obscure his glory as far as they can. (p. 33)
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Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Books, Humility: True Greatness, Minister's Blog