I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature’s first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly...

A good man would never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food –...

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded.A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons....

The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them successfully: not a...

Life’s a short trip. You’ll find out.

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

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...

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...

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.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered...

We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.

Value the wisdom of humility, as well as the sense of perspective it gives you.

Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts.

The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as ‘the brilliant one’ but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.

The height of cleverness is in one’s ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

The bottom line is that you can’t lead the person you can’t serve!

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His...

Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body)

Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there is any universal truth.” It sounds humble. But look carefully at what is happening. It’s like a servant saying: I am not...

It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples’ feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.

His joy was a release of Paul’s conversion, not the heavy backslapping practical-joking humor of the Victorians, nor the cynical satire or the flippancy of the twenty first century mass media, just the gift of...

The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages are as fallible as individuals, every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only...

He’s such a good leader. He has humility. He goes out and works so hard, and he understands you have to work for everything you get in life. He’s got the right mind-set, and that’s...

Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

The theology of littleness is a basic category of Christianity. After all, the tenor of our faith is that God’s distinctive greatness is revealed precisely in powerlessness. That in the long run, the strength of...

Life is a harsh, twisted paradox.On one hand, you wish for no pain or suffering or misery on anyone. Yet you hope to see your children grow into individuals of compassionate and kind character. And...

Purification of the mind is attained through humility, integrity and a sense of justice.

Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

Humble is pride exhibited through humility.

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

It can be unhelpful to wax eloquent about the inerrancy of Scripture without an accompanying acknowledgment that, while Scripture may be inerrant, there are no inerrant interpreters of Scripture.

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,...

. . . 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 root of all true greatness, is humility.

A child’s cry touches a father’s heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no more than cry it will bring omnipotence to our aid. A cry is the...

The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.

You can’t let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone’s parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone’s child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

Before someone will get the guts to monitor your life, he must get the keyboard of humility. To be a humble person, is a priority in leadership!