A Study in Proportions

Friday. Jas. 4: I-IO.

Humility is the foundation grace, the mother of all virtues and all strength. It does not mean thinking meanly of yourself and talking yourself down. It means getting God in the right place. Everything we have is from him. It is entrusted to us by him. It is at its best really only as it is used for him. When this gets hold of us it makes us friends of God, and crowds out every ungodlike thing.

Open in the reader The Bent-Knee Time

Restored from a scan of the 1918 edition, with page headers and numbers removed and words rejoined across line breaks. Scan-derived text, still being proofread; compare the original scan before quoting.