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“Certainly all virtues are very dear to God, but humility pleases Him above all the others, and it seems that He can refuse it nothing.”

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“Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self-absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. They are exceedingly rare.”

Men Humility Exceptionalism

Book:Me and the Devil

Source: Me and the Devil

“It is only in the desperate seconds before death that we realize the windows against which we broke our bodies were only mirror, all along.”

Book:Imagine Me

Source: Imagine Me

“I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humility and at the same time, an absolute belief in one's own essential freedom. It is an act of faith. At the last moments, like all great acts, it is pure risk. This is true for me as a human being and as a writer. Dear Heaven, how hard it is to let go - to step into the blue. And yet one's creative life depends on it and one desires to do nothing else.”

Writing Faith Freedom Creativity Risk Humility Surrender

Book:Letters and Journals

Source: Letters and Journals

“Let us make our way through these low valleys of the humble and little virtues. We shall see in them the roses amid the thorns, charity that shows its beauty among interior and exterior afflictions, the lilies of purity.”

Humility Charity Purity

Author:St. Francis de Sales

“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being a mere fancy of their own. Scoffers of old time were too proud to be convinced; but these are too humble to be convinced.”

Doubt Humility Skepticism

Book:Orthodoxy

Source: Orthodoxy

“The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the world but eyes focused on what is good, never caring about spectators or the cost. He is proud that his wife can laugh, that his children can play, humbled by their love for him. His prayers say, "Please make me worthy of them" - In humility lies the foundation of strength.”

Family Marriage Sacrifice Strength Humility Pride Proud Husband Man

Author:Lee Goff

“A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors.”

Author:St. Francis de Sales

“Part of what makes him (laid-back Tim Hudson)an ace is that he would never acknowledge that he is an ace.”

Humility Servant Leader

Author:Joe Simpson

“If there is any power of righteousness in Heaven, you will drink to the dregs the cup of punishment amid sea rocks and as you suffer cry "Dido" againa and again. Though far, yet I shall be near, haunting you with flames of blackest pitch. And when death's chill has parted my body from its breath, wherever you go my spectre will be there,. You will have your punishment, you villain. And I shall hear, the news will reach me deep in the world of death.”

Love Death Revenge Punishment

Book:The Aeneid

Source: The Aeneid

“For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears, and third laughter.”

Humility Crisis

Book:The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Source: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare