I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

When an illiterate gets angry, you’ll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, “There’s a man in there!”Lincoln’s good news, he confided from the heights...

A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.

There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.

Purification of the mind is attained through humility, integrity and a sense of justice.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

…talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

Never believe you’re so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.

True humility isn’t thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself exactly the way God thinks of you; not more and not less.

Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature’s first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so...

We can be knowledgeable with another man’s knowledge, but we can’t be wise with another man’s wisdom.

Rudeness, abruptness, gory tales of blood and thunder, and coarse language usually show up the greenhorn or counterfeit, and certainly the ill-bred. “The bravest are the tenderest; the gentlest are the daring.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.

A blush of breeze rose from the grass. Jacob felt as if an angel’s wing had beat against his cheek. He touched his cheek slowly. He felt embarrassed by the thought.”That I should think an angel came to me.”He wept. And, again, the brush of breeze against his cheek.

If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it.

Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.

Being big enough to know when you are small, makes you gigantic. Lack of humility is not necessarily the down fall of great relationships, it is the slippery slide ego and pride take you down that block communication, cause mis-communication and dissolution of trust, that kill a bond.–TAMMY WOOSTER 1/15

[T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

The acknowledgement of our shortcomings renders the truth of our need.

Life’s a short trip. You’ll find out.

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn’t glorify people, we must hear each other’s stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

Tim Tebow’s Dad turned a screw-up into a testimony when a fire to burn weeds in a field got out of control. With his family still smelling like smoke from containing the fire, he conducted a lesson from verses where James compares danger of speech to an out-of-control spark.

We don’t really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

False humility is better than no humility at all.

Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosophical question. It is the philosophical question that is supposed to take center stage, cracking us open to an entirely...

True humility means giving joy to others.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone’s life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At...

There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity; placing Christ back in the role as head teacher.

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Never step on caterpillars, as one day, they’ll become butterflies and you’ll never know when you’ll need a ride on its wings of fortune.

When you know something, you know it, and when you don’t, you’d better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.

Don’t kill the game with your ‘funk’, elevate it with your humility.

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,

It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his painful martyrdom certainly looked like self-nomination for sainthood. He’s not sure he can keep up this exhausting, aw-shucks façade for...

Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.

There’s no such thing as a mistake, really. It’s just an opportunity to do something else.