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.

There is pride, too, though – pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That’s how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside...

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

Humble me so I do what is right. Break me so I cling to You. Expose me so my motives stay pure.

The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.

The prosperity of humanity is in utter disparity with its clarity largely seen in wider poverty.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise and rudely great:With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,With too much weakness for the Stoic’s pride,He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest;In doubt to deem himself a God...

Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.

Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and...

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

Reality. Sometimes it comes through foreign eyes; because if you don’t know any better, you can’t see the worse. Or vice versa.

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors.

The proper way is lost to me; my compass spins. I therefore give my entire attention to those works that seem to me most incorruptible: the application of heat, the proportion of seasoning, the arrangement of a plate. When robbed of all pretensions and aspirations, with no proper home nor any knowledge of what discord...

The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors — more than I can even fathom coping with. I will strive to find a way to turn pity into admiration, for what use is it to send pity back at the world. Admiration and awe are much more helpful, especially when I...

Lord, help me to begin to begin.

You hand over control, you start winning.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility “faith”!(Institutio III.2.3)

Prayer can be a tricky thing, because there are passages that say do not doubt and believe you have received whatever you ask for and you will, but then Jesus prayed ‘Not my will by thy will be done.’ Ultimately, we can’t tell God what to do. He will accomplish, in our lives, whatever He...

A man protects his fish from rats by keeping it under a cat’s watch. How wise!Another buys a gun for security reasons, but decides to kill a ghost with it. How smart!One prays to God for safety, as he climbs a palm tree with sewing thread. How intelligent!Man does not want the truth, and God...

Without haters, you can’t see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil.

The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

I used to give advice, and no one wanted it. Now I give suggestions and everyone asks for more.

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.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But in service, we must experience the many little death of going beyond ourselves. Service banishes us to the mundane, the ordinary, the trivial

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.

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

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no...

. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

Seek counsel; though we are all skilled and experienced in many ways, no one can experience all that life has to offer in the limited time we are given in this world.

Imitate Jesus and Socrates

The one who is born of the earth, dreams of the sky. The one who is born of the sky, dreams of the earth.

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being ‘the victims of the victims’: there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.

In humility, we find our true calling and our greatest honor.

To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God – maybe even day after day. Maybe he’s too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of...

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

A wise man’s goal shouldn’t be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

Shamed and enraged, I sit by the side of the road and cry.Eclipsed by a sense of disgrace, my emotions feel momentarily stifled and disconnected. Instead of anger, I feel dishonored and exposed. I cannot even formulate my thoughts, much less speak them. My integrity and humility have been violated. I have only my own...

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

Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn the art of conversation with ordinary people. Is this gift for listening and for conversation, it seems, that allowed him to produce textured historical narratives of grand impact.

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him – thirsting, hungering, seeking! And the great sinners came closer to Him than the proud intellectuals! Pride swells and inflates the ego; gross sinners are depressed, deflated and empty. They, therefore, have room for God....

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. We are on...

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.