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....

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

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

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...

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.

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

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular...

Life is not a competition with others. Life is a competition with yourself—to do your personal best each day.

Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life’s basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.

Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its essence

The humble woman is surprised by all the good that she sees around her rather than scandalized by what she cannot judge anyway. The humble woman is grateful for her successes but not disheartened by...

It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted, be humble always, be kind especially when it’s difficult and never forget the...

One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we...

Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he...

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even “humble” attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables...

There’s no reason to not be humble, because as great as you may be, you can always be greater.

You’ve to close down your umbrella when you are under a canopy. Drop your pride; give praise to God!

Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street...

If you can’t let go of the power you possess, if you can’t surrender it gracefully when it is time to do so, you will most likely abuse it.

The chief means of resisting manipulation is humility – knowing who we really are and facing it. You can only serve by love. You can only love by choice. True love cannot be the result...

False humility is a form of psychosis which was imprinted on most of us since birth. It is a mental illness because it locks us in a victim state of keeping our light turned down,...

Live life with great humility.

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend...

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to...

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.

With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private...

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

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.

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...

… no sensitive Christian can be satisfied with a distinction between righteousness and unrighteousness drawn only between communities, with each individual belonging unambiguously on one or the other side of the line. The behavior of...

You will only learn in a fight how much you’ve got to learn.

Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.

Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground...

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

How sweet is that? I know I’m no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name...

The complex mix of unique people rising from different identities, beliefs, education, gender, upbringing, point of views and ethnicity have unequal sense in their impact in other’s status, opportunities, resources, talents, skills and productivity. It...

We are not worthy to unloose the latchets of Jesus’ shoes, because, if we do, we begin to say to ourselves, “What great folks are we; we have been allowed to loose the latchets of...

Every person that you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person’s mask.

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.