It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids...

It's a powerful experience, shitting. There's something magical about it, profound even. I think God made humans shit in the way we do because it brings us back down to earth and gives us humility. I...

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

It is not my ability but my response to God's ability that counts.

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

You are not a handgun. More like a pellet gun. Maybe even a slingshot.

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.

Knowing your power is what creates humility. Not knowing your power is what creates insecurity.

Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a 'ship', regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the...

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.

The answer is that their confidence was actually in God, not in their limited understanding of what they thought he would do. They had inner assurance that God would rescue them. However, they were...

Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment...

To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.

I don't have to be the smartest person in the room, I just have to be in the room.

It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to faith rather than a monument to man's triumph over nature.

Who do we think we are - we small creatures with three - pound brains, a few limited senses, and life spans barely long enough to get to know our neighborhood, much less the planet, and much less the...

An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.

The bush is not merely a holiday destination; it's where you learn how insignificant you truly are.

It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more. It's remembering Socrates' wisdom lay in the fact that he knew that he knew next to nothing.

At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions... and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.

Our own path, whatever we aspire to, will in some ways be defined by the amount of nonsense we are willing to deal with. It doesn't matter how talented you are, how great your connections are, how...

Find canvases for other people to paint on. Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself. Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt...

The first product of self-knowledge is humility, Flannery O'Connor once said. This is how we fight the ego, by really knowing ourselves.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

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 into their own...

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham