Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

On Alex Rodriguez’s difficulty performing in clutch situations, Joe Torre writes, “In key situations, he can’t get himself to concern himself with getting the job done instead of how it looks. There’s a certain freefall...

I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of...

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn’t glorify people, we must hear each...

A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is “a dispenser of the ‘Mysteries of God.'”The husband, unlike the “manager” or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the...

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.

Humility is patient because it is neither past nor forward seeking — it is content.

When the heart is pure, simple, straight and sweet; his words that flow are stronger in fleet on street.

I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successful. I was not stunned by the praise which...

What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God.

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular...

When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you’ve already won the day.

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy – that is the greatest dare.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There’s no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for...

Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time.

Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

I know I have this judgmental side that I’m often fighting against. But today I recognized the depths of my assumptions about people. What I envision is nothing remotely similar to the reality. Humility hurts....

A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game as possibl, and as cautiously, because it knows its girth and the tight...

There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don’t...

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.

Be grateful for the twists in the road. They teach us humility and grace. And any dancer in this life requires both

The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. “Other sheep I have which are not of this fold…” A...

[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.

There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better.

I don’t care if your the President of the United States, the Queen of England, the inventor of the microchip, a bankable movie star, or an ordinary Joe or Jill, you’re no paragon in my...

We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.

Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe...

The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause

We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow,...

He has caught me using the word “literally” where I did not really mean it, a vile journalistic cliché which he cannot possibly reprobate more severely than I do myself.

Humility is not weak, powerless, faint, a pushover, a punching bag or an abuse magnet, because above all — humility cares.

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

Don’t cap your potential in the name of humility. First, maximize your potential, serve the world with your greatness and then worry about pride 🙂 lol

Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling -Look...

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry...

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ’s...

In flew influence, and out fluttered humility.