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1 Corinthians 3
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
― Ferdinand Foch
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
Matthew Henry
No athlete was ever victorious because he did his boasting in advance.
—Roy L. Smith, Tampa Morning Tribune, Tampa, Fla., Feb. 1, 1940.
Joseph Smith boasted that he did more than Jesus to keep a church together.
“God is in the still small voice. In all these affidavits, indictments, it is all of the devil–all corruption. Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet . . . ” (History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 408-409).
“I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round.” Muhammed Ali
Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.
John Piper
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain
It is always the novice that exaggerates
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape letters
So then no more boasting about men, v21
Missions Paul 