Thought for the Day 13 March 2010

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Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Saturday, March 13th, 2010
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No one begins to examine himself, and to pray to know himself … but he finds within him an abundance of faults which before were either entirely or almost entirely unknown to him. That this is so, we learn from the written lives of good men, and our own experience of others. And hence it is that the best men are ever the most humble; for, having a higher standard of excellence in their minds than others have, and knowing themselves better, they see somewhat of the breadth and depth of their own sinful nature, and are shocked and frightened at themselves.

From the sermon ‘Secret Faults’ (1825) Click here for the full text (leaves site)