#humility

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#hypocrisy #self-awareness #humility

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#best #clever #condescension #humble #humility

The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable. ↗

— Brian D. McLaren

#humility #holy-spirit

We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#humility #holy-spirit

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#appearance #cannot #does #except #exist

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#contrary #even #happiness #him #his

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#humility #personality #substitute

I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is. ↗

— Julie Delpy

#bit #false #films #funny #humility

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#fresh #humility #important #keeps #new

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. ↗

— Orson F. Whitney

#experience #faith #fortitude #humility #pain