"If
we are ever to know God we have need of humility. Two things are
necessary in real religion. (i) First we need a sense
of our own inadequacy. When people complained to Abraham Lincoln that
he wasted time in prayer, he answered "I would be the greatest fool on
earth if I thought that I could carry the burdens which are laid upon me
for one day without the help of one who is greater and wiser than I."
We need the realization that we cannot cope with life by ourselves (ii)
We need the sense of sin. The astonishing thing is that it was the best
of men who were most conscious of their own sin. Paul can write of
himself that he is the foremost of sinners (1 Timothy 1: 15). Francis of
Assisi can say of himself "no where is there a more wretched a more
miserable, a poorer creature than I"
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