A Little Benjamin Franklin Reading

Did a little reading on Benjamin Franklin this morning. I was particularly looking for a quote that a friend gave me a few years ago. This friend wrote it down for me carefully on a piece of paper and it was valuable enough for me to buy a frame for it and post it in my office. I found it again at the website http://www.sfheart.com/FranklinsVirtues.html .

“In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.” Benjamin Franklin 1741.

Anyhow, in addition to the quote I found a great number of other great things that Benjamin Franklin thought. When I say “great things” I am actually referring to God things (many which are found in the hebrew and greek scriptures). Though this may not be a popular thought in American culture, I find it impossible that anyone can have any greatness without God. And to say “that goes without saying” is to take acknowlegement away from God that should not be taken away.