“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
My heart was heavy, for its trust had been Abused,
its kindness answered with foul wrong;
So, turning gloomily from my fellow-men,
One summer Sabbath day I strolled among
The green mounds of the village burial-place;
Where, pondering how all human love and hate
Find one sad level; and how, soon or late,
Wronged and wrongdoer, each with meekened face,
And cold hands folded over a still heart,
Pass the green threshold of our common grave,
Whither all footsteps tend, whence none depart,
Awed for myself, and pitying my race,
Our common sorrow, like a mighty wave,
Swept all my pride away, and trembling I forgave!
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him…
“True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him”
– Jonathan Edwards
“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them”
“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them”
François de La Rochefoucauld
“Humility is the beginning of true understanding”
Wisdom of the Ages 