"Humility is greatness bending, but not yielding to the storm. It is power, preserving its strength. It is faith, ready for the test. It is patience, willing to wait. It is the soul listening for the angel's song. It is wisdom, parting with ambition. It is confidence, prepared for the call. It is love, anxious to serve. It is the bud of gentleness, unfolding the fruit. It is obligation, realizing its responsibility. It is goodness, kneeling in prayer. It is the dove, returning to the ark. It is understanding, calm and secure. It is justice weighing and considering the evidence. It is mercy, waiting for God to point the way. It is meekness, simplicity, and purity, contemplating God and rebuking selfishness, arrogance, and pride. It is the 'fruit of conquered sin.' It is the Easter morning of the sufferer gladdening the heart with its sunshine. It is loyalty and stead-fastness, unmoved by threats of injustice and wrong. It is the watchword of Christian Science; a 'pearl of great price' which our beloved Leader has set in humanity's crown of rejoicing." 

John L. Fellers

 

Christian Science Sentinel

 

February 23, 1907

 

Humility

 

"Humility is perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, or irritable, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing that is done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised, it is to have a blessed home in myself where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret and be at peace, as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and about is seeming trouble." 

(Author unknown)