Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.

For we know not what we should pray for.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

All ignorance toboggans into knowledge and trudges up to ignorance again.

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

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

Not only are the poorest people the most generous, but they don't expect anything in return, least of all recognition from others by means of showing off or posting a humble brag like so many from...

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

I guess it's because we all want to believe that what we do is very important, that people hang on to our very word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if...

There is always someone better off than you, and there is always someone worse off than you.

If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today... is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past.

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

So, as we have our tea, I propose not only to operate on your heart so as to change your will, but also on your eyes so as to change your outlook. But wait a minute. No, I do not propose to operate at...

... every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.

I'm glad I'm not good compared to God, because if I was, He wouldn't be much of a god.

I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.

Gilks sighed. 'You're a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,' he said, 'but you make the same mistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.

I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand - a hand never dirtied by serving - and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.

When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.

We must overturn so many idols, the idol of self first of all, so that we can be humble, and only from our humility can learn to be redeemers, can learn to work together in the way the world really...

When you feel big and powerful, stand before a mountain; when you feel small and weak, stand before an ant.

Of what did Job repent? His wonder was too small.

A leader learned to follow, and serves the followers who are learning to lead.

Self importance is pride of a soul.

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

It doesn't matter who they are, anybody setting foot in this house is your company, and don't you let me catch you commenting on their ways like you are so high and mighty! Your folks might be better...