February 11, 2010

Being Small

"Come to me, all you who toil and are overburdened, and I will refesh you. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, because I am meek and humble of heart."
~ Matthew 11:28-29


There is what you have got to get hold of, brothers and sisters, and it's certainly little enough. We are striving for great things; let us lay hold of little things, and we shall be great. Do you wish to lay hold of the loftiness of God? First catch hold of God's lowliness. Deign to be lowly and humble on the same account, yours, not his own. So catch hold of Christ's humility, learn to be humble, don't be proud.

~ St. Augustine of Hippo, approx. A.D. 430

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