Twelve Lakota virtues: There is considerable discussion about the number of virtues. Some say four, some say seven, some say twelve. I am using the list from Joseph M. Marshall III, The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living (New York: Viking Compass, 2002).
The Greek view of humility: Gerhard Kittel, “tapeinos,” in Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, 10 vols. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1977).
The mother and mistress of all the virtues: Cited in André Louf, The Way of Humility, trans. Lawrence Cunningham, Monastic Wisdom Series 11 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2007), 6.
Humility comes from elsewhere: Cited in Louf, The Way of Humility, 7.
Twelve steps of humility: Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of St. Benedict in English, ed. Timothy Fry (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 1982), 32-38.
The eight godly virtues: Evagrius of Pontus, cited in Richard Foster and Gayle Beebe, Longing for God: Seven Paths of Christian Devotion (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009), 54-64.
There is one vice: C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: MacMillan, 1952), 94.
I have found an essay: Grace Hamman, “Julian of Norwich’s Children: Childhood and Meekness in A Revelation of Love,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 49, no. 1 (January 2019).
As truly as God is our Father: Julian of Norwich, Showings (New York: Paulist, 1978), 295-96.
Julian’s similitude of the mother and child: Hamman, “Julian of Norwich’s Children.”
The Sweet gracious hands: Julian of Norwich, Showings, 302.
The humility and meekness: Julian of Norwich, Showings, 300.
6. THE MOON OF THE GREEN LEAVES
It does not require many words: From Joseph’s speech at Lincoln Hall, Washington, DC, 1879. Joseph’s Nez Perce name is Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekht, “Thunder rolling over the mountains.”
Despite such international recognition: Paul Brand and Philip Yancey, Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God’s Image (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2019), 2.
I can imagine God: Brand and Yancey, Fearfully and Wonderfully, 6.
Assurance that the Christian life: Brand and Yancey, Fearfully and Wonderfully, 6.
Pride is the cause: Evagrius of Pontus, cited in Richard Foster and Gayle Beebe, Longing for God: Seven Paths of Christian Devotion (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009), 60.
My words and thoughts: George Herbert, “Colossians 3:3: Our Life Is Hid with Christ in God,” in The Temple: Poetry of George Herbert (Brewster, MA: Paraclete, 2001), 81.
For the Lakota there was no wilderness: Kent Nerburn, The Wisdom of the Native Americans (Novato, CA: New World Library, 1999), 5.
The first and most essential element: Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2001), 39.
He [Jesus] says, “Do not blame yourself: Julian of Norwich, Enfolded in Love: Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich (Minneapolis: Seabury, 1980), 49.
For the litany composed by Cardinal Merry: C. S. Lewis to Don Giovanni Calabria, March 27, 1948, Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, vol. 2 (New York: HarperCollins, 2004).
Ohiyesa, “The Winner”: “Dr. Charles A. Eastman Ohiyesa (The Winner): Santee Sioux,” Aktá Lakota Museum & Cultural Center, http://aktalakota.stjo.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8884. Excerpted from the biographical notes at the end of The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) (World Wisdom, 2007).
We know that all religious aspiration: Kent Nerburn, The Wisdom of the Native Americans (Novato, CA: New World Library, 1999), 83.
branded us: Nerburn, The Wisdom of the Native Americans, 83.
In these matters I wish to express my debt to Dr. Dallas Willard, especially his unpublished notes in “Studies in the Book of Apostolic Acts: Journey into the Spiritual Unknown.”
We first Americans mingle: Nerburn, The Wisdom of the Native Americans, 83.
Prayer—the daily recognition: Nerburn, The Wisdom of the Native Americans, 90-92.
There was undoubtedly much: Nerburn, The Wisdom of the Native Americans, 127.
Humility and holiness are twins: Thomas R. Kelly, A Testament of Devotion (New York: Harper & Row, 1941), 67.
I saw that an humble man: John Woolman, The Journal of John Woolman and a Plea for the Poor, John Greenleaf Whittier Edition Text (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1972), 18.
Quotations from Thomas Aquinas, Thomas à Kempis, Bernard, and Augustine: Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2001), 21, 51, 59, 89.
Humility is the only soil: Murray, Humility, 17.
I had long known the Lord: Murray, Humility, 18.
Let us at the very outset: Murray, Humility, 18.
The pride Satan breathed: Murray, Humility, 45.
Nothing sets a person: Jonathan Edwards, quoted in Murray, Humility, 58.
But through the revelation: John Woolman, The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman, ed. Phillips. P. Moulton (Richmond, VA: Friends United, 1989), 19.
The untold story of the Lakotas: Pekka Hämäläinen, Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (New Haven , CT: Yale University Press, 2019), 3.
The most improbable expansion: Hämäläinen, Lakota America, 3. This remarkable work of history is fascinating reading, if a bit hefty at 530 pages.
The essential vice: C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: MacMillan, 1952), 94.
Humility, rooted in an accurate: Catherine J. Wright, Spiritual Practices of Jesus: Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke’s Earliest Readers (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2020).
All the saints are convinced: François Fénelon, Christian Perfection (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947), 205.
Dee Brown’s fine book: Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (New York: Picador, 2007).
Black Elk’s report on Wounded Knee: John Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks (New York: Pocket Books, 1972), 217-23, 230.
As I plod along my brain is fixated: I am well aware of the 1973 siege and occupation of Wounded Knee by the Oglala Sioux and the American Indian Movement’s (AIM) armed defiance. The results were mixed. It did attract wide media coverage to the plight of the Lakota people. But it failed to accomplish its key goal of removing Tribal President Richard Wilson, who was accused of enormous corruption and abuse. Several died in the struggle, most importantly Buddy Lamont, who was well-known in the Pine Ridge tribal family. The occupation lasted for seventy-one days and ended May 8 following Lamont’s death.
Lakotas will endure: Pekka Hämäläinen, Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019), 392.
It is also the most passionate: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “My Spirit Rejoices,” The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, ed. Isabel Best (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2012), 115.
God draws near to the lowly: Bonhoeffer, “My Spirit Rejoices,” 118.
Only the humble believe: Bonhoeffer, “My Spirit Rejoices,” 120.
