“The earnest worker soon learns his own weakness. If you seek humility, try hard work; if you would know your nothingness, attempt some great thing for Jesus. If you would feel how utterly powerless you are apart from the living God, attempt especially the great work of proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ, and you will know, as you never knew before, what a weak unworthy thing you are.” — Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening
Hard work heals a lack of humility.
Earnest efforts amend arrogance.
Vigor delivers from vanity.
If you are tempted to think more highly of yourself than you ought, attempt something grander than your ability. Force yourself to come up short that your meekness may be lengthened.
A life of ease makes it easy to overestimate yourself. Ease leads to pride. A life of hard work makes it hard to overestimate yourself. Hard work heads to humility. Hard work makes it easier to appreciate the work of others. Ease makes it harder to appreciate the work of others.
The comfortable path leads to conceit.
The difficult trail leads to candor.
Romans 12:3
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Hard work makes short work of hard hearts.
Lamentations 3:27
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Hard work heals a bored tongue.
"It is the empty wagon that rattles." — Donald Grey Barnhouse
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