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“Pride keeps you from dealing with truth. It distorts your vision. You never change when you think everything is fine. Pride hardens your heart and dims the eyes of your understanding. It keeps you ...”
“Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.”
“I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.”
“When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.”
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
“To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world....”
“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”
“True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.”
“Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”
“Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”
“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.”
“There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.”
“Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.”
“One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.”
“...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.”
“The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them success...”
“See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.”
“Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others.”
“The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.”
