What you’re doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to...

The SAME GUY who took the Baptist’s life is drawn by the rumblings of the Spirit’s power throughout the countryside, manifested in numbers by guys a lot less confident and competent than the Baptist. Father,...

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing...

Readers who wish to follow Whim rather than whim–readers who have learned enough about what he or she really thrives on to seek more of it–the first lesson must be in humility. . . ....

Embrace the magical gift of serenity in your daily life. Nothing beats patience, humility, honesty and tranquility.

Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer’s amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still,...

If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United...

Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.

The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above,...

A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit’s constituent rigor and humility and...

There is a fine line between humility and humiliation, and when Augustine’s critics, both loyal and disloyal, fault him for morbid self-criticism, they generally mean to imply that he has crossed the line. You can...

Don’t be shy to say “I am sorry”; Never feel too big to say “Please forgive me”; Don’t think it’s unnecessary to say “thank you”; Never feel bad to admit “I am wrong”! That’s a...

Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books… When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

The only competition in art is the search for truth. No matter who gets there first, we all win.

Real Humility is when I can treat a minister, a prince, a priest, a teacher, a waiter and a janitor with the same and equal respect.

Write as if Time will erase every word.

I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.

If I have learned one thing in the years of my existence, one nugget of wisdom from having lived in the midst of disputations over faith and the nature of the world, it is that...

Self-consciousness isn’t just A curse. It is part of THE curse.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

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.

While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble,many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves.

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...

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn’t know.

I think any artist that’s going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, “Let it be with me according to your word.

Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

Humility adds lessons to our pain and suffering, turning the seemingly senseless into meaning.

The subtle whispers, cues and nudges are there as guideposts, to gently carry the humble listener along the path back to the source and the true self.

A noble heart is a window to find an open mind.

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.

Why is it that self-confidence is so often cocky and self-assured so often selfish? Neither has to be true. Having confidence doesn’t require being superior over another and being self-assured doesn’t require taking advantage of...

there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominent now, encouraging people to be more skeptical of their...

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are...

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk...

The leader must have both – the courage to take the people to a daring destination and the humility to selflessly serve others on the journey.

Humility cannot be taught by propaganda, though slavery can. Shouting for humility is a form of arrogance. One of my most abiding recollections is of a priest at a religious occasion once roaring, in the...

Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness — the faculty of standing apart without seeming aware that he was alone — a balance of mind and temper that...

Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the...

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer...

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus’ deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and...

You don’t lose anythings by being humble. A humble person will win the heart of a King.

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‘Run like hell and all of fire.’ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.