{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110540.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110540.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110540.htm","text":"How we too may overcome pride.\nAnd so we can escape the snare of this most evil spirit, if in the case of every virtue in which we feel that we make progress, we say these words of the Apostle: \u201cNot I, but the grace of God with me,\u201d and \u201cby the grace of God I am what I am;\u201d 1042 and \u201cit is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure.\u201d 1043 As the author of our salvation Himself also says: \u201cIf a man abide in me and I in him, the same beareth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.\u201d 1044 And \u201cExcept the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.\u201d And \u201cVain is it for you to rise up before light.\u201d 1045 For \u201cit is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.\u201d 1046\nS. John xv. 5.\n282:1045 282:1046","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter IX. How we too may overcome pride.","type":"page"}