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| Chapter IX. How we too may overcome pride.
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Chapter IX.
How we too may overcome pride.
And so we can escape the
snare of this most evil spirit, if in the case of every virtue in which
we feel that we make progress, we say these words of the Apostle:
“Not I, but the grace of God with me,” and “by the
grace of God I am what I am;”1042
and “it
is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of His good
pleasure.”1043
As the author of
our salvation Himself also says: “If a man abide in me and I in
him, the same beareth much fruit; for without me ye can do
nothing.”1044
And “Except
the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Except the
Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.” And
“Vain is it for you to rise up before light.”1045
For “it is not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.”1046
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