Humility: True Greatness #8

Chapter 8

- "Identify evidences of grace in others."

- Pride is blinding!!!

- Shape a "divine perspective." Basically, focus on God's grace in your life as well as others' lives.

- "We motivate others by grace when we help them to see [that God is at work]."

- "When's the last time you specifically and sincerely informed your child of an evidence of grace that you've observed?"

:: I'm just going to take a second to thank MY parents for always specifically and sincerely sharing with me the evidences of grace they've seen in my life. They were and ARE incredible examples of humble parenting!!! ::

- "Would [people] tend to view you as just another fault-finder? Or do they know you as someone who actively calls attention to the evidences of God's gracious work in their lives and in the church?"

- "Let's emulate Paul's humble example and be preoccupied with the divine perspective that makes possible the deepest affection for OTHERS..."

Humility: True Greatness #7

Chapter 7

- "The grand difference between a human being and a supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God, I cannot exist. Apart from me, God DOES exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be: I do need God in order for me to be... We are dependent. We are fragile... God does not fade. God is not fragile." - R.C. Sproul

- "By the grace of God I am what I am, but God says absolutely I AM that I AM." - Matthew Henry

- "God intentionally designed salvation so that no man can boast of it." - Mark Webb

- "He didn't merely arrange [salvation] so that boasting would be discouraged, or kept to a minimum..." - Mark Webb

- "PLAY GOLF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE... I don't think there's a more difficult or more humbling sport."

Humility: True Greatness #6

Chapter 6

- "Throughout each day we're experiencing saving grace, sustaining grace, serving grace - grace that should amaze us."

- "I must INTENTIONALLY transfer the glory to God."

- "Whatever successes you experience in your life and ministry and vocation, learn to immediately transfer the glory to Him."

- At the END OF EACH DAY - "Receive the gift of sleep from God and acknowledge His purpose for sleep."

- "A Christian, informed and inspired by Scripture, views the cessation of work each day, the limitation god places upon work each day, and the laying down to sleep each night, as altogether a gift from God."

- "Each night as I confront my need again for sleep, I'm reminded that I'm a dependent creature. I am not self-sufficient. I am not the Creator."

- "Throughout the night as you sleep, someone else is sustaining you."

- "Seize this opportunity to mortify pride and cultivate humility by setting apart sleep as a holy gift from God."

- "Let the Spirit give you a new perception and appreciation of sleep."