#humility

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #conscience

If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#pain #personal-development #personal-growth #suffering #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

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#again #attempt #basic #capable #grasp

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#humility

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#hoarding #humility #information #knowledge #knowledge is power