February 29

Humility

“Learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart.”
— Matt. 11:29

“Shall I ever forget the humiliation of Christ? … Never! never! through all eternity. I shall never forget His humiliation on earth. While seeing Him in glory animates the soul to run after Him, what feeds the soul is the bread come down. That produces a spirit that thinks of everything but itself. … Go and study Him, and live by Him, and you will come out in His likeness, in all His grace and gentleness and loveliness. … The Lord give us to be so occupied with Him who was so full of love … so full of lowliness, that we shall manifest the same.”

“True humility does not so much consist in thinking badly of ourselves as in not thinking of ourselves at all. I am too bad to be worth thinking about. What I want is, to forget myself and to look to God, who is worth all my thoughts.”