"You must be humble and modest, not proud and conceited...It is an observation I have made upon what little acquaintance I have had with the world: I have seen more young people ruined by pride than by any one lust whatsoever. Therefore, let me press this upon you with all earnestness: it is a caution introduced with more than ordinary solemnity. 'For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man among you.' What is the word that is thus declared to be of divine original and universal concern? It is this: that no man 'think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly' (Romans 12:3). Keep low thoughts of yourselves, of your endowments both outward and inward, of your attainments and improvements, and all your performances--all the things you call merits...delight more to say and do what is praiseworthy than to be praised for it. For 'what hast thou that thou didst not receive' (1 Cor. 4:7)?"
--Matthew Henry (1622-1714)
