BOASTING
Boasting is
the outward form of the inner condition of pride.
Justification by Faith is the End of Boasting,
May, 30, 1999, Sermon. Used by Permission, www.DesiringGod.org.
Boasting is the
voice of pride in the heart of the strong. Self-pity is the voice of pride in
the heart of the weak.
Those that
boast most of the religion may be suspected of partiality and hypocrisy in it.
Commentary, 1 Samuel 5:13.
Boasting is
always suspicious, or superfluous. For real greatness no more needs a
publisher, than the sun!
Christian Love, 1828.
Whatever we
think valuable ought to be acknowledged as received from God. If then all the
excellency we have is God’s gift, it is very strange that we do not learn
humility when God thus binds us to Himself; but that, on the contrary, we abuse
His bounty by making it the occasion of pride. This ingratitude has
nevertheless ever prevailed in the world. This then is the reason why [God]
reduces to nothing all the boastings of the world.
John Calvin
Commentary, Jeremiah 9, Lecture 38.
Grace puts
its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.
C.H. Spurgeon