The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”[Modernism’s Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present...

The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances...

A person’s hope does not drop really till he could not stop to believe truly in himself.

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.

Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility,

Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, “I went to college with every person I ever met.

If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.

Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly ‘I don’t know.

Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.

Look here, it’s all very tidy and convenient to see the world in black and white,’ said the Major, trying to soften his tone slightly. ‘It’s a particular passion of young men eager to sweep...

He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God’s will that he began to admit that God’s purposes might be different from...

We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say “I...

Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.

Never allow any level of success to steal your humility. You are not the first person to succeed on earth; neither will you be the last one to do so. Please humble yourself and never...

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace...

I still get plenty anxious. The weird thing, and the unpleasant surprise for me, of proceeding well into the middle, perhaps even post-prime of my career is that writing books has not got any easier....

Humility and repentance are necessary to restore your relationship with God.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay...

I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful when he does his work right and chooses his work to suit his...

If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and...

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

If you feel deserve to judge the arrogant,it’s a sign that you’re so far of humbleness.

In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others.

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.

True humility means giving joy to others.

Every subject’s duty is the King’s; but every subject’s soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience;...

Insecurity was never humility; just as arrogance was never success.

We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God’s feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God’s share in it is felt as a tribute which we must...

Humility is recognizing the fullness of our sin, so we can embrace the fullness of God’s mercy.

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

Have more humility. Remember you don’t know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few...

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degreeOf blindness, weakness, Heav’n bestows on thee.

…when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you’ll get to rest and relax until...

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it’s like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way,...

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief’… is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by...

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse. And vice versa.

Choose to be at peace with yourself and you will never have any battle to lose. Find yourself every reason and season to share your peace with others!

Little deeds that proceed from charity please God and have their place among meritorious acts.

Humility and respect should not be taken as a glyph of weakness

I’ve never been good with asking for help; it seems risky, but at some point when things are really dicey, your stubbornness gives way to a certain form of humility that, after you get over...

Nothing is more deceitful,” said Darcy, “than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

This is how it needs to be in life. Solomon also wrote these words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) “Two are better than one, because if either of them falls down, one can help the other...

I was always exceedingly delighted with that saying of Chrysostom, “The foundation of our philosophy is humility”; and yet more pleased with that of Augustine: “As the orator, when asked, What is the first precept...

stand” and to address that reality.It would be good if we could approach life the way we approach prayer, knowing before whom we stand.