Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did mirrored her faith. It was as though every waking hour of the day she was devoted to...

True humility is contentment.

‘Tragedy admires man. Comedy feels a bit sorry for him.’ We think we are kings or queens, masters of the universe or at least our own destiny. We forget that a foot may crush us,...

you teach people how to treat you by how you treat people

For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears,...

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

The company owner doesn’t need to win. The best idea does.

Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom and experience over a farmhouse table or a cup of wine in a...

I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all – the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all… You see it’s so immensely complicated. It...

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes’ palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees.

You’re the hero.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.

There’s no such thing as a mistake, really. It’s just an opportunity to do something else.

There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity;...

Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the...

Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.

1052The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause

Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

How quickly self rises to the surface, and the instrument is ready to believe he is something more than an instrument! How sadly easy it is to make of the very service God entrusts us...

In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility.

The writing has a meaning only if it is penned down with the heart’s deep feeling.

Weel, ma´am’ said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; ‘when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; there´s now to...

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:

The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted...

We are a biological species arising from Earth’s biosphere as one adapted species among many; and however splendid our languages and cultures, however rich and subtle our minds, however vast our creative powers, the mental...

I’m not offended until you think I’m offended.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great ending no matter how small and where obscured they have started!

Certainly all virtues are very dear to God, but humility pleases Him above all the others, and it seems that He can refuse it nothing.

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and...

watch out for schools that promise your kids will “experience success.” I’m teaching Plato’s Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.

But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not...

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

Oh … why not?’ he smiled. “This valley is a pleasant spot for meditation. I like New England… it is here that I have experienced some of my greatest successes – and several notable defeats....

Not one thing we’ve done changes that we are his. That he created us and loves us with a love more fierce and loyal than any we will ever know. He isn’t looking for perfection....

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one’s self.To mind one’s own business.Not to want to manage other people’s affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To...

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have...

False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.

The better we become, the higher we climb. The higher we climb, the bigger our ego. The bigger the ego, the harder it is for us to look at others the same way we did...

We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek...

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.

True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.

False humility is better than no humility at all.

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

There is only One on record who has practiced Christianity in every respect at every moment of his life – Christ himself. In that sense, there are no practicing Christians, but only Christians who, in...