“Conceit deprives your common life
all good faith and trust, but that is not all. It also makes faith in
God impossible, since you deny thereby the credit God deserves for
the good that can only have been done with Divine help, and believe
instead that you alone were responsible for it. Doubtless, there is not
anyone who does not crave the praise of others, or some show of
gratitude for whatever one secretly thinks, “only because of me”.
But this, of course, is just vainglory, when you regard yourself as
having qualities of other gifts in suitably high degrees, when you do
not. And you are even more gravely deceived when others believe such
things about you.
The fact is that it is God who causes
people to esteem you, for their own sake, to make it easier for them
to believe what you say...”
- Stephen of Muret Maxims
My own earthly father challenges me in the Faith like no other person... Here I share one such bit of wisdom he passed from the early fathers to his own children with, "Children I have something to share with you from my reading... listen." Read Daddy's blog ... www.forwardinafrica.com .
The following Daddy says, "Is deep theology..."
George D. Carleton
"The Spirit of Discipleship"
