Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed... The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind have rest.
Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
Humbleness is always grace; always dignity
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.
God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.
In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece of heart. As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, because you have begun to trade in unrealities and there is no joy in things that do not exist.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.
Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your body.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.
A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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