Our Inscrutable Strata of Self-Admiration

Desiring God’s blog has a post by John Piper comparing thoughts from C. S. Lewis and Jonathan Edwards on the subject of humility. It’s worth checking out here.

This smidgen of a quote from Lewis regarding the human propensity to self-admiration might whet your appetite to click through:

It is like fighting the hydra… There seems to be no end to it. Depth under depths of self-love and self-admiration.

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