"It
is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He
loves;
but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that
grace,
which is revealed to the humble, but hidden from the proud...."
Augustine
of Hippo
"Life is a long lesson in humility."
Sir James Matthew Barrie
"Pride
is concerned
with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right."
Ezra Taft Benson, US
administrator and Mormon leader; (1899-1994)
"Humility
is nothing
else but the right judgment of ourselves."
William Law
"I
see only one thing
to do at the moment. Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his
attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the
man
is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.
Catch
him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his
mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove! I'm being humble", and almost
immediately pride at his own humility will appear."
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape
Letters
"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your
funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."
Michael Pritchard
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