“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.”
Source: The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
“The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.”
Source: Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
“Tim Tebow's Dad turned a screw-up into a testimony when a fire to burn weeds in a field got out of control. With his family still smelling like smoke from containing the fire, he conducted a lesson from verses where James compares danger of speech to an out-of-control spark.”
Source: Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey: Young Reader's Edition
“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.”
Source: St. Francis of Assisi
“Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.”
“No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or her qualities but because mainly he or she is being able to express the expectations of a great mass of people, then he or she is much more of a translator of the aspirations and dreams of the people, instead of being the creator of the dreams. In expressing the dreams, he or she is recreating these dreams. If he or she is humble, I think that the danger of power would diminish.”
Source: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
“Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.”
Source: Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
“Trying to show that you have mental illness to somebody who’s never had it is like trying to describe a new color to the colorblind”
Source: The Zenas Cure
“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, in public affairs, by some denunciatory act against what we are pleased to call our neighbour's vices might yet have been unwoven by the hand of sympathy.”
Source: A Christmas Sermon
“The 'HIGHway' to peace is humility!”
Source: Back to Single