Jonathan Edwards on Humility
God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace unto the humble.
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A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections 4
The true saints have not such a spirit of discerning that they can certainly determine who are godly, and who are not.
A spirit of pride of man's own righteousness, morality, holiness, affection, experience, faith, humiliation, or any goodness whatsoever, is a legal spirit.
The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness.
A proud spirit is a rebellious spirit, but a humble spirit is a yieldable, subject, obediential spirit.
Sermons 1
Our understandings, if we stretch them never so far, cannot reach up to his divine glory.