You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
Criss JamiTags: truth honesty humility arrogance corruption destruction sincerity pride insincerity
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
Timothy J. KellerSpiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or to speak of them with grief and pity. Spiritual pride is very apt to suspect others, but a humble Christian is most guarded about himself. He is as suspicious of nothing in the world as he is of his own heart. The proud person is apt to find fault with other believers, that they are low in grace, and to be much in observing how cold and dead they are and to be quick to note their deficiencies. But the humble Christian has so much to do at home and sees so much evil in his own heart and is so concerned about it that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts. He is apt to esteem others better than himself.
Jonathan EdwardsVanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.
T. William WattsTags: insanity humility vanity
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
Dietrich BonhoefferTags: christianity humility respect honor applause discipleship
But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a Christian than there is between the humility of a lover and the rapacity of a lover. The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy. There never was a man in love who did not declare that, if he strained every nerve to breaking, he was going to have his desire. And there never was a man in love who did not declare also that he ought not to have it.
G.K. ChestertonTags: love christianity humility christian desire catholicism catholic lovers unworthy chesterton
There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.
Nelson MandelaTags: humility
These are the few ways we can practice humility:
To speak as little as possible of one's self.
To mind one's own business.
Not to want to manage other people's affairs.
To avoid curiosity.
To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.
To pass over the mistakes of others.
To accept insults and injuries.
To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.
To be kind and gentle even under provocation.
Never to stand on one's dignity.
To choose always the hardest.
Tags: acceptance selfish humility curiosity mistakes forgiveness difficulty quiet injury gossip humble forgotten dislike insult dignity rejection kind cheerful gentle bossy provocation
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
Bryant McGillTags: pain learning loss humility suffering growth lessons trials
Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.
Bill McKibbenTags: humility environmentalism conservation woods
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