Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or THINK they have) gained.
Arundhati RoyTags: truth power humility human-nature gratitude helplessness powerlessness
The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them.
Thornton WilderTags: humility artist modesty routine
Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.
Criss JamiTags: love compassion peace god self-sacrifice selflessness humility bible selfishness subjectivity rules conflict fighting commandments sacrifice laws apologetics consideration dispute objectivity
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
Criss JamiTags: truth honesty humility sin hypocrisy openness confession pride vulnerability dishonesty self-righteousness righteousness concealment exposing
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom truth certainty doubt pain philosophy god faith humility human understanding spirituality uncertainty theology pride comprehension knowing confusion apologetics pretentiousness not-knowing
Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.
Richard RohrTags: humility law submission
If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.
Richard RohrTags: humility status-quo conservatism idolatry
The proper way is lost to me; my compass spins. I therefore give my entire attention to those works that seem to me most incorruptible: the application of heat, the proportion of seasoning, the arrangement of a plate. When robbed of all pretensions and aspirations, with no proper home nor any knowledge of what discord tomorrow brings, I still may have a pocketful of dignity. The Roman pomp and raiment have fallen away, and I see at last the glory of washed feet and shared bread.
Eli BrownThere are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.
Criss JamiTags: minority confidence humility arrogance wrong right pride ego cognition offense superiority conviction cocky haters
I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.
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