The sixth sign is “evangelical humiliation” or what we would call humility. This is “a great and most essential thing in true religion.” In fact, “nothing is acceptable to [God] without it.” The worst kind of pride is spiritual self-righteousness, whereby we think highly of our attainments in religion. But true saints think highly of others and lowly of themselves, because they see the outside of other Christians but only the inside of themselves. The most certain sign of self-deception is a person’s