Humility Quotes
As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.
CS Lewis may make difficult questions accessible. I don't think he makes answers 'easy. – Debra Winger
The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.
The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?
We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are.
Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton
When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.
Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey
He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.
As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.
Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.
Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.
I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.
Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.
Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.
Looking to advance in journalism, one future editor displayed skilled as varied as economic analysis and humorous commentary.
Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers
Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.
You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.
Economics has accurately been called the science of the single instance.
I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali
God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.
Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.
There's something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are.
We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.
Are you dedicated to your patient or your ego?
Effective love is rarely efficient.
He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.
We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.
Underestimation has its uses.
The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.
Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.
Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.
Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.
He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.
David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.
There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.
Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.
Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.
The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.