Umphrey's Quotes

The great fact emerges that after that historic date all holographs so far exhumed initialled by Haromphrey bear the sigla H.C.E. and while he was only and long and always good Dook Umphrey for the hungerlean splapeens of Lucalizod and Chimbers to his cronies it was equally certainly a pleasant turn of the populace which gave him as sense of those normative letters the nickname Here Comes Everybody

be demanding when no one's listening- you will find an ear

7. When you look at the tenets of the Oxford Group and the 12 steps at the end of the introduction, can you name some parallels? What are the parallels between the steps and Biblical principles that you know about? How might the steps help take a person from self-centered (the flesh) to God-

signs of religion, the Pharisee self-righteously thanked God that he was not a sinner like other men. In contrast, the tax collector bowed his head and beat his chest, saying, “God be merciful to me, a sinner!” (v.I3) It was the tax collector who was justified, according to Jesus, because “everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted” (v.I4).

Step One necessitates the admission of fault that has caused powerlessness and unmanageability in our lives. We must admit we have been wrong. Recognizing a state of wrongness or sin in himself, the tax collector defeated ego and false pride when he humbly asked for mercy. Because of this admission, Jesus said that he would be exalted. The far simpler and much more common