If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus’ deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and...

You don’t lose anythings by being humble. A humble person will win the heart of a King.

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‘Run like hell and all of fire.’ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

In the process of trial and error, Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility.

If we can’t accept what we don’t know, there really is no hope.

For things I am not thankful for―experiences I would never volunteer to relive―I recognize how they have changed me. My depth of compassion and humility, the sincerity of my empathy and understanding, and the duration...

Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy...

The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at...

Starting over is not a sign of failure. I look at it this way: A person enrolled at the wrong life college, underwent some hellish classes, passed a lot of difficult tests, majored in perspective,...

When people give me a compliment, I just look back and smile, as I am just a glimpse of both my father’s. Both earthly and heavenly.

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular...

Life is not a competition with others. Life is a competition with yourself—to do your personal best each day.

Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life’s basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.

Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its essence

The humble woman is surprised by all the good that she sees around her rather than scandalized by what she cannot judge anyway. The humble woman is grateful for her successes but not disheartened by...

It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted, be humble always, be kind especially when it’s difficult and never forget the...

One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we...

Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he...

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even “humble” attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables...

There’s no reason to not be humble, because as great as you may be, you can always be greater.

You’ve to close down your umbrella when you are under a canopy. Drop your pride; give praise to God!

Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street...

If you can’t let go of the power you possess, if you can’t surrender it gracefully when it is time to do so, you will most likely abuse it.

The chief means of resisting manipulation is humility – knowing who we really are and facing it. You can only serve by love. You can only love by choice. True love cannot be the result...

False humility is a form of psychosis which was imprinted on most of us since birth. It is a mental illness because it locks us in a victim state of keeping our light turned down,...

Live life with great humility.

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend...

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to...

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.

With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private...

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his...

… no sensitive Christian can be satisfied with a distinction between righteousness and unrighteousness drawn only between communities, with each individual belonging unambiguously on one or the other side of the line. The behavior of...

You will only learn in a fight how much you’ve got to learn.

Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.

Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground...

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

How sweet is that? I know I’m no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name...

The complex mix of unique people rising from different identities, beliefs, education, gender, upbringing, point of views and ethnicity have unequal sense in their impact in other’s status, opportunities, resources, talents, skills and productivity. It...

We are not worthy to unloose the latchets of Jesus’ shoes, because, if we do, we begin to say to ourselves, “What great folks are we; we have been allowed to loose the latchets of...