Quotes About Humility

As far as quality housemates to be found on Planet Earth, it goes: dolphins, elephants, orangutans, octopi, then every single spider, then Joan of Arc, the Dalai Lama, Mr. Rogers, Freddie Mercury, my nan, all the scorpions, German measles, a dented recycling bin, and then maybe some of the rest of us.

She wasn't angry. You can't get angry just because the world's so much bigger than you and you're stuck in it.

There's no fun in arguing if you never get shown up. Who plays a game if there's no chance they'll lose? I do so crave to be proven wrong. It is as sweet as proving yourself right, when done properly. The trouble is, most people only argue with their friends and their family, which a real sportsman knows is no way to practice. If no one you know can prove you wrong, you're in peril and that's the truth.

I am here to tell you We are all of us just as mighty as planets—and you too, We'll let you in, we've got stalwart to spare— But you might have to sleep on the floor.

There's no fun in arguing if you never get shown up. Who plays a game it there's no chance they'll lose? I do so crave to be proven wrong,. It is as sweet as proving yourself right, when done properly.

But the birch tree reminded me of how large the world was and how unimportant was my place in it. It became a reminder: to let things be what they were, to live unsentimentally. To pare away the unnecessary neuroses, the compulsion to be at the center of every thought; to look at the world without the intervening lens of self.

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.

How can we come to church and sing our hymns and pray our prayers and spit on the very creation God made above every other living thing on this earth?

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Il ne faut pas avoir peur de regarder les choses en face. La vie est le résultat de la malpropreté. Si la nature avait été bien tenue, la vie ne serait jamais apparue. La vie est née de quelques vagues saletés au fond d'une flaque d'eau boueuse. La vie, donc l'homme. Il n'y a vraiment pas de quoi être fier.

He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?

Jesus was not just concerned with souls. He wanted a changed society. That is precisely why he begins the new thing within a community of disciples whom he orders to quit acting as if they are superior, to forgive one another seventy-seven times a day, and to turn the other cheek when someone strikes them.

How often I take for granted the astounding news that God loves me with a callous, "Yeah, yeah, he loves me, now what about God giving me what I want for myself right now?" I can fly right over the stunning surprise of this news. God created me and God loves me. Personally, individually, deeply, eternally, passionately.

One of the chief spiritual lessons of Christmas for Christian believers is the notion of social inversion, the world turned upside down. We can see this in the appearance of the incarnated God in a manger—an animal feeding trough—rather than a palace, and in the angelic first announcement of this miraculous birth to lowly shepherds rather than princes. The

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Il più certo modo di celare agli altri i confini del proprio sapere, è di non trapassarli.

Le moyen le plus sûr de cacher aux autres les limites de son savoir est de ne jamais les dépasser.

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

One day at a time. He had also added that it's a good rule not to take anything personally. We think that everything revolves around us: both what other people do and what they don't do. It's almost never true. Things happen and that's it; most other people are uninterested in us, for good or ill.

You start making big money in the market and you think you know something—you don't know anything! It's the market that knows something, not you!

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

It is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are.