I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about.

I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things....

Most people make it difficult to understand with their lifestyle & stand especially to a helping hand if they don’t understand or they don’t want to understand as whom they should accept as their friend.

If you go in thinking that you’re smarter than everyone else, you want in a learning very much. If you go in thinking, “I’d sure like to understand this better,” you end up doing precisely...

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it...

Integrity comes not from privilege, textbooks, or profession, but from being grounded in humility.

It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have...

If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to...

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them...

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

You can become the greatest personality in your community by developing the sagacity of humility, teachability, prosperity-mentality and accountability.

We subscribe into God’s unlimited plan when we kneel in humility, live in grace and reach-out in love

Don’t let proud get to your head, always humble yourself.

You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know – You have qualities which I had not supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of...

After Galileo, Einstein and even Freud, we try to hang onto a pathetic sort of significance on this planet and in this universe, that we are in some way more special than anything else. Our...

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don’t mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not...

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one’s own follies.

For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have a sense of being at home on this planet, my blood so like...

When you claim to be what you’re not, you’re deliberately killing opportunities, because those who would have help will shun you, thinking that you had it all already.

Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble,many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not...

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn’t know.

I think any artist that’s going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, “Let it be with me according to your word.

The SAME GUY who took the Baptist’s life is drawn by the rumblings of the Spirit’s power throughout the countryside, manifested in numbers by guys a lot less confident and competent than the Baptist. Father,...

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing...

Readers who wish to follow Whim rather than whim–readers who have learned enough about what he or she really thrives on to seek more of it–the first lesson must be in humility. . . ....

Embrace the magical gift of serenity in your daily life. Nothing beats patience, humility, honesty and tranquility.

Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer’s amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still,...

If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United...

Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.

The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above,...

A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit’s constituent rigor and humility and...

There is a fine line between humility and humiliation, and when Augustine’s critics, both loyal and disloyal, fault him for morbid self-criticism, they generally mean to imply that he has crossed the line. You can...

Don’t be shy to say “I am sorry”; Never feel too big to say “Please forgive me”; Don’t think it’s unnecessary to say “thank you”; Never feel bad to admit “I am wrong”! That’s a...

Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books… When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

The only competition in art is the search for truth. No matter who gets there first, we all win.

Real Humility is when I can treat a minister, a prince, a priest, a teacher, a waiter and a janitor with the same and equal respect.

Write as if Time will erase every word.

I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.

If I have learned one thing in the years of my existence, one nugget of wisdom from having lived in the midst of disputations over faith and the nature of the world, it is that...

Self-consciousness isn’t just A curse. It is part of THE curse.