Intellectual conviction or pride?

“What we suffer from … 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 to not doubt — the Divine Reason.” (emphasis mine)
–(G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (Garden City, NY: Image Books Doubleday and Company, 1959, orig. 1924), p. 31, quoted by John Piper, Battling Unbelief (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2007), pp. 41-42.)

Read some of Kari’s thoughts on that and surrounding content in that chapter in Battling Unbelief.

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By the way, we should allow the Truth to humble us

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