G. K. Chesterton was correct (and could have written this in this morning’s newspaper and it would have been just as fitting as the day he wrote it) when he penned these thoughts about humility and modesty:
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon 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. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt — the Divine Reason.…
Words of Grace 