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| By Norma Boeckler |
“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... The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping: not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy - he was also at Notre Dame
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Modesty Misplaced":
In 1999, the Catholic Church and the LWF signed a joint declaration on the doctrine of justification (how a person is saved), one of the main points of contention between Catholics and Lutherans in the 16th century.
At the meeting with Younan, Benedict called the 1999 declaration "a significant step along the difficult path towards re-establishing full unity among Christians."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/18/lutheran-leader-seeks-com_n_798413.html
LWF
http://www.lutheranworld.org/Directory/afr/Welcome-EN.html
Thrivent uniting and binding in theology and purpose
https://www.thrivent.com/magazine/fall11/whereintheworld.html
