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    D. A. Carson
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    Poverty of spirit is the personal acknowledgement of spiritual bankruptcy. It is a conscious confession of unworth before God. As such, it is the deepest form of repentance.

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    Blaise Pascal
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    The Christian religion, then, teaches men these two truths; that there is a one whom men can know, and that there is a corruption in their nature which renders them unworthy of Him.

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    Hannah More
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    There are three requisites to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings: a thankful reflection, on the goodness of the giver; a deep sense of our own unworthiness; and a recollection of the uncertaint...

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    Chuck DeGroat
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    It's important to keep in mind that the lawyerly and perfectionist false self is a protective mechanism for his feelings of not being good enough. Perhaps he was criticized for not being a “good b...

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    Thomas Watson
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    God does not justify us because we are worthy, but by justifying us make us worthy.

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    Ray C. Stedman
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    It goes against the grain to give an image of oneself that is anything less than perfect, and many Christians imagine that they will be rejected by others if they admit to any faults. But nothing coul...

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    Tim Lane and Paul Tripp
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    Weak and needy people finding their hope in Christ's grace are what mark a mature relationship. The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength...

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    Alain de Botton
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    The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determinin...

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    Timothy Keller
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    A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.

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    Alia Joy
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    So we learn early on that lack is embarrassing. Our pain is uncomfortable not just for ourselves but for those around us. Our need is obscene and offensive to a world that prides itself on its self-re...

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    Paul Martinelli
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    All fear stems from either ‘I am not enough’ or ‘I don’t have enough.’

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    Thomas Paine
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    A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

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    Alexander MacLaren
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    Luke 18:9-14
    That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-...

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    Socrates
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    The unexamined life is not worth living.

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    Mike Martin
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    Evading self-acknowledgment of our faults enables us to avoid painful moral emotions: guilt and remorse for harming others; shame for betraying your own ideals; self-contempt for not meeting even our ...

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    Timothy Keller
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    2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Proverbs 28:13, Matthew 5:3, Isaiah 6:5, Psalm 51:3-4, James 4:10
    If I am in denial about my own weaknesses and sin, there will be a concomitant blindness to the greatness and glory of God.

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    Ursula K. Le Guin
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    For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while ano...

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    Richard Lovelace
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    Romans 5:1, Romans 8:1, Galatians 2:16, Titus 3:5, 1 John 4:15, Isaiah 61:10, Hebrews 10:14
    Much that we have interpreted as a defect of sanctification in church people is really an outgrowth of their loss of bearing with respect to justification. Christians who are no longer sure that God l...

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    Iain Duguid
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    If my own righteousness is all that I am relying on, then I have no hope of finding favor in God’s sight. This is perhaps the hardest part of the Christian message to get across to people – the fact t...

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    Nicholas Harnan
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    This [brokenness] is what needs to be accepted. Unfortunately, this is what we tend to reject. Here the seeds of a corrosive self-hatred take root. This painful vulnerability is the characteristic fea...

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    Brant P. Hansen
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    Titus 3:5, Romans 7:18-19, Psalm 51:5, Jeremiah 17:9, Isaiah 64:6, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 3:23
    “I’m not a good person” is a shockingly countercultural thing to say. We all want to think we’re “clean” and that we’ve avoided whatever “big sins” are on our own personal lists. But we trust ourselve...

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    Seneca the Younger
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    The worse a person is the less he feels it.

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    John Calvin
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    [There is nothing worse than to be] devoid of awe.

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    Brené Brown
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    I believe that there is a profound difference between shame and guilt. I believe that guilt is adaptive and helpful – it’s holding something we’ve done or failed to do up against our values and feelin...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 8:1, Isaiah 61:7, Hebrews 12:2, Psalm 34:5, Romans 10:11, 1 John 1:9, 2 Timothy 1:7
    I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

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    Alia Joy
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    We are a society that despises lack. We despise weakness and need and insufficiency. We turn the other way and pretend to be watching oncoming traffic when the red light halts us and the beggar reache...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim su...

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    Daniel Taylor
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    One of the dearest indications of a flawed life story is its failure to give one the sense of purpose and conviction necessary to live life with an acceptable degree of optimism and resolve. A failed ...

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    John Calvin
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    Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
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