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• Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Humility, Risk, Christian Love

  Stanley Hauerwas, John Berkman, Michael Cartwright (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.124, Duke University Press

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• How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

  Elizabeth of Hungary

  God, Spiritual, Humility

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• We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

  Angeles Arrien

  Trust, Christian, Letting Go

  Angeles Arrien (2010). “The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Conceited, Thinking

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

  Pope Francis

  Humility, Pride, Men

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• A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he quietly endures the insult or responds with great humility, he weakens the serpent and lessens its hold. But if he replies acrimoniously or brazenly, he gives it strength to pour its venom into his heart and to feed mercilessly on his guts. In this way the serpent becomes increasingly powerful; it destroys his soul's strength and his attempts to set himself right, compelling him to live for sin and to be completely dead to righteousness.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Powerful, Freedom, Heart

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• ...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Humility, Thinking

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• God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.

  Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow

  Christian, Humility, Humble

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• Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God.

  Charles Hodge

  Christian, Humility, Grace

  Charles Hodge (1860). “An Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians”, p.317

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Clouds, Wish

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• If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Sacrifice, Effort

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “Letters to Persons in the World”, p.39, Aeterna Press

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• I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Humility.

  Anthony the Great

  Humility, Voice, Enemy

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• Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

  Agnes of Rome

  Beautiful, God, Christian

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• Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

  Mark the Evangelist

  Humility, Pride, Praise

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• Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Thinking, Wish

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• Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Foundation, Fabric

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 330, 1895.

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• An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.

  John Climacus

  Passion, Humility, Angel

  Saint John (Climacus) (1959). “The Ladder of Divine Ascent”

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• The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Humility, Mind

  Thomas Merton (1976). “Thomas Merton: On Peace”, Andrew Mowbray Incorporated, Publishers

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• According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Teacher, Pride

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Humility, Foundation

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3683, Delphi Classics

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• Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.

  Saint Basil

  Humble, Humility, Thinking

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• A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

  Solomon

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Kings

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• Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

  Don Marquis

  Bible, Jesus, Humble

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• One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

  John Piper

  Christian, Humility, Appreciate

  John Piper (2013). “Alive To Wonder: Celebrating The Influence Of C.S. Lewis”, p.4, Whitaker House

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• A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress - freedom from anger and patient endurance of injuries; and of the perfect - humility, thirst for dishonors, voluntary craving for involuntary afflictions, non- condemnation of sinners, compassion even beyond one's strength. The first are acceptable, the second laudable; but blessed are those who hunger for hardship and thirst for dishonor, for they shall be filled with the food whereof there can be no satiety.

  John Climacus

  Blessed, Humility, Compassion

  Saint John (Climacus) (1959). “The Ladder of Divine Ascent”

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