Quotes About Abase

And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.

We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.

The desire to abase the values of knowledge before the values of action...