Insights from "The Advent of Humility"

If you haven't read Tim Keller's article, "The Advent of Humility," featured in this month's issue of Christianity Today, I would compel you to do so. I would like to share a few insights & quotes that I took away from the article. It was deeply challenging & revealed much pride in my heart that I often choose to overlook.

• "Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves." --Tim Keller
  
  
• "Humility is a byproduct of belief in the gospel of Christ. In the gospel, we have a confidence not based in our performance but in the love of God in Christ (Rom. 3:22-24)." --Keller
  
  
• "Religion & morality inhibit humility." --Keller
  
  
• "Christian humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less." --C.S. Lewis
  
  
• "Moralism is the default mode of the human heart." --Martin Luther
  
  
• "If we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good--above all, that we are better than someone else--I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the Devil." --"The Great Sin" in Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
  
  
• "So let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us." --Keller

Grace to you & peace from God our Father & the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God & Father, to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen.