Sermon text: "serving the Lord with all humility of mind" - Acts 20:19
"When a man has seven talents, he must remember that he has seven burdens, and he who has ten, if he has more than others, should feel that he has ten times any other man’s burden of responsibility; and therefore he should be bowed down. Let a man feel that he possesses more power than another, more eloquence, more mental acumen, more learning, more imagination, and he is so apt to sit down and say, “I am something; I am somebody in the Church.” Yes, one may indeed speak with solemnity here. It is so ridiculous for us to ever boast of any talents which God has given us. It is as though the debtor in the jail should say, “I am a better man than you, for I am in debt 10,000 pounds, and you only a hundred.” The more we have, the more we owe, and how can there be any ground for boasting there?"
"Great success is like a full cup, it is hard to hold it with a steady hand."
"When you have long-continued joys, fear and tremble for all the goodness of God."
"there is not a position in the world where a man cannot be humble if he has Divine Grace; there is not a station under Heaven where a man will not be proud if left to himself; I pray you, never think that leaving one station and getting into another will be any help to your humility. [...] It is not the place, it is the heart. It is not the position, but the Grace."
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