True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking…

Ralph Washington Sockman
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True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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