"Ah, Lord, who hast created all, / How hast Thou made Thee weak and small, / That Thou must choose Thy infant bed / Where ass and ox but lately fed! … Ah dearest Jesus, Holy Child, / Make Thee a bed, soft, undefiled, / Within my heart, that it may be / A quiet chamber kept for Thee."
— Martin Luther
Source: "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her" (1535), tr. Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica, first series
Humility, salvation
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"In that way the first part is humility; the second, humility; the third, humility: and this I would continue to repeat as often as you might ask direction, not that there are no other instructions which may be given, but because, unless humility precede, accompany, and follow every good action which we perform, … pride wrests wholly from our hand any good work on which we are congratulating ourselves."
— Augustine
Source: Letter 118 (to Dioscorus), 22 (tr. J. G. Cunningham, NPNF I/1)
Humility, Pride
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"Christians need a grateful heart, a repentant heart, humility, and a true understanding of history."