What we suffer from today 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 not to doubt — the Divine Reason…
The new skeptic is so humble that he doubts if he can even learn…
There is a real humility typical of our time; but it so happens that it’s practically a more poisonous humility than the wildest prostrations of the ascetic…
The old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which makes him stop working altogether…
We are on the road to producing a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.
–from G. K. Chesterton via John Piper
Jojo Agot 
I can’t disagree, and am ashamed to admit that I understand too well.
Perhaps if I think it is time to stop working on a task, I must question if I the problem is that I had the wrong aim when I started, or I’ve shifted to the wrong aim now, and then re-focus on the aim that is always true: giving glory to Him Who made and redeemed me, Who loves me enough to give His life for me.
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I can’t disagree, and am ashamed to admit that I understand too well.
Perhaps if I think it is time to stop working on a task, I must question if I the problem is that I had the wrong aim when I started, or I’ve shifted to the wrong aim now, and then re-focus on the aim that is always true: giving glory to Him Who made and redeemed me, Who loves me enough to give His life for me.
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I can’t disagree, and am ashamed to admit that I understand too well.
Perhaps if I think it is time to stop working on a task, I must question if I the problem is that I had the wrong aim when I started, or I’ve shifted to the wrong aim now, and then re-focus on the aim that is always true: giving glory to Him Who made and redeemed me, Who loves me enough to give His life for me.
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