In his new book "The Gospel-Driven Life," Michael Horton quotes G.K. Chesterton's "Orthodoxy" on humility that has gone adrift. He argues that current forms of 'humility' are just like prior forms of pride. People now are 'too humble' to have convictions.
"But what we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled on the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert—himself."
"We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table…. Scoffers of old time were too proud to be convinced; but these are too humble to be convinced."
[Thanks to Mike Whitmer for the quote]
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