I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don’t even need or want to look ‘intelligent’ anymore.

Through life, I want to walk gently. I want to treat all of life – the earth and its people – with reverence. I want to remove my shoes in the presence of holy ground....

Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels...

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being...

The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his...

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn’t know.

If you are humble you will never have to struggle against positive change.

The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the world but eyes focused on what is good, never caring about...

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility…Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don’t know.

It’s okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

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

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I’d write a check to buy it back.

The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it...

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

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

It’s better to find success through God, than finding it on one’s own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it’s with gratitude.

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘welcome’ written on it.

Have a heart which does not trample down simplicity and humility.

We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be very acute...

The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it. (…)This is a truth we dare not acknowledge these days – because sameness is our religion and heretics...

I believe a man’s finest hour often comes when he is at his weakest. When he is broken, affronted and at a place of great emotional transparency. It’s there he has the rare insight of...

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did mirrored her faith. It was as though every waking hour of the day she was devoted to...

True humility is contentment.

‘Tragedy admires man. Comedy feels a bit sorry for him.’ We think we are kings or queens, masters of the universe or at least our own destiny. We forget that a foot may crush us,...

you teach people how to treat you by how you treat people

For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears,...

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to...

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or...

If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.

The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again.

Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble & stay hopeful.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

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

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward.” Jefferson Davis’s future wife describing...

As for the fear, you’ll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

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...

Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it is necessary, even now, to leave the regions of our conquest – the...

Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

How quickly self rises to the surface, and the instrument is ready to believe he is something more than an instrument! How sadly easy it is to make of the very service God entrusts us...

In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility.

The writing has a meaning only if it is penned down with the heart’s deep feeling.