Wise Words

"Then, moreover, what a swelling of arrogance it is, what oblivion of humility and gentleness, what a boasting of his own arrogance, that any one should either dare, or think that he is able to do what the Lord did not even grant to the apostles; that he should think that he can discern the tares from the wheat, or, as if it were granted him to bear the fan and to purge the threshing-floor." --Cyprian, martyred in the 3rd century