“If you can overcome love, you can overcome fear. If you can overcome fear, you can overcome death.”
“The first thing we are given, life itself, is the privilege of all privileges. Whatever else life brings us, having it at all should fill us with humility and gratitude.”
“The alternative to a posture of humble gratitude is one of entitlement, which produces thanklessness toward your own blessings and envy toward the blessings of others.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“Modesty is not a bad habit, after all,' the priest commented. 'Alhough humility would be better.”
Source: The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
“Bravado tends to drown out the sound of wonder. Perhaps you've known that person who devours beauty as if it belongs to them. It is a possessive wonder. It eats not to delight, but to collect, trade, and boast. It consumes beauty to grow in ego, not in love. It climbs mountains to gain ownership, not to gain freedom.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Never say that, Andy. God loves to make a man break a vow. It keeps him properly humble about his place in the world and his sense of self-control.”
Source: Firestarter
“I had no time to Hate—
Because
The Grave would hinder Me—
And Life was not so
Ample I
Could finish—Enmity—
Nor had I time to Love—
But since
Some Industry must be—
The little Toil of Love—
I thought
Be large enough for Me—”
“I am attracted to humility, while arrogance repels me.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right.”
Source: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
“Infinite humiliation and grace, and then a striving born of gratitude — this is Christianity.”
Source: Journals and Papers