But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a Christian than there is between the humility of a lover and the rapacity...

Sometimes a woman has experienced too much life to have any blush left in her cheeks, but the man who puts it there is someone not easily forgotten.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Truthfulness requires humility as well as courage.

I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression...

No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or...

The author’s Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we evaluate as good and evil to those we evaluate at the evil, and we are wrong, we have been made...

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

What causes all this?””Pride. What else?

A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn.

You don’t have to be a big name to do big things. Shine does not require recognition.

I had such a hard time giving all the glory to God when first accepting Him as Lord. Coming out of a theatre background where there were many applauds and accolades, I suffered from what...

We don’t really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.

Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance.

It was amusing to me to see how the detective’s overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

His way was like other people’s; he mounted no high horse; he was justa man and a citizen. He indulged in no Socratic irony. But hisdiscourse was full of Attic grace; those who heard it...

Stand by; for I am holier than you!” What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One: the holiest will ever be the humblest. There is none holy but God: we...

A person could himself distinguish the human beings into different kind only, but a different person being only kind could distinguish himself to be a human.

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8

Bob Dylan’s Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone’s side in any Kulturkampf.

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one’s greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

The sciences have two extremities which meet. The first is the ignorance in which men find themselves at birth. The second is that attained by great souls. They have surveyed whatever man can know, find...

If Christians insist only on condemning what they don’t like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.

A major element in Lincoln’s greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.

No matter how great you ‘think’ you are or how successful you’ve become. Never forget those who have lifted you up. Never forget life’s experiences, both good and bad which have shaped you as a...

If you will only consider, you will remember many a person of whom the world never heard and will never hear, whose years have been as full of generosity, loyalty to duty, faith in God,...

We must learn to live with contradictions, to have faith in skepticism, to advance toward the solution of a problem by admitting as a possibility that it may be insoluble.

Unlike Kim Cardassian or Donald Trump, Montaigne regarded the inward glance as an adventure in self-effacement not self infatuation. He was a charming and perceptive critic of his own foibles, especially alert to his weakness...

If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I’d answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask,...

Don’t underestimate the poor, because his soul treasures to Phoenix of Wits

The minute you think you have the right to belittle others because you think you’re better than them is the same minute you’ve proven you’re worse.

Having all the answers just means you’ve been asking boring questions.

A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?

The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.

I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you’ve got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you’ve got to have...

One should preach not from one’s rational mind but rather from the heart. Only that which is from the heart can touch another heart. One must never attack or oppose anyone. If he who preaches...

There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!

Our best thoughts come from others.

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

Being big enough to know when you are small, makes you gigantic. Lack of humility is not necessarily the down fall of great relationships, it is the slippery slide ego and pride take you down...

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep...

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

GK Chesterton was not afraid to combine serious Christian themes with buffoonery.

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness...

People may like a person’s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart.

Management” of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become – the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble...