Any man who trusts so much as a hair's breadth to his works is lost. He who trusts in any measure his own righteousness cannot be resting in Christ.
God said it--we must serve Him, and we must serve Him in His own way, and we must serve Him in His own strength, and we must serve Him for His own glory, or He will not accept our service. That which we do, unaided by Divine strength, God will not accept. "When I am weak, then am I strong."
How easy it is for us to be lifted up with pride! How hard it is to keep it down. That demon of pride was born with us and will not die even an hour before we die. It is so woven into the very warp and woof of our nature that, till we are laid in the ground, we shall never hear the last of it.
If there is a place on earth more holy than another, or a place to visit more often for its virtue, it is the pulpit whence THE GOSPEL IS PREACHED.