There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or...

Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can’t be humble without self-love.

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently...

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘welcome’ written on it.

Have a heart which does not trample down simplicity and humility.

We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be very acute...

The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it. (…)This is a truth we dare not acknowledge these days – because sameness is our religion and heretics...

I believe a man’s finest hour often comes when he is at his weakest. When he is broken, affronted and at a place of great emotional transparency. It’s there he has the rare insight of...

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

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.

Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to...

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or...

If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.

The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again.

Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble & stay hopeful.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

We can be knowledgeable with another man’s knowledge, but we can’t be wise with another man’s wisdom.

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward.” Jefferson Davis’s future wife describing...

As for the fear, you’ll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

Tim Tebow’s Dad turned a screw-up into a testimony when a fire to burn weeds in a field got out of control. With his family still smelling like smoke from containing the fire, he conducted...

Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it is necessary, even now, to leave the regions of our conquest – the...

It’s better to find success through God, than finding it on one’s own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it’s with gratitude.

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

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.

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...