“Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.” IfsDoeShowsHandsSeemsAcceptingLaughingAirAtheismOughtIntellectualHumblePositive AtheismCuriousIronySpeakersNeverthelessSuperiorityAdoptedExaminationBenchesBe HumbleCongregationPulpitParrotsSecond HandIntellectual Superiority Book:Mark Twain's Fables of Man Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man
“This is the spirit of prayer--sincere, humble, believing, submissive. Other prayer than this the Bible does not require--God will not accept.” BelieveDoeSpiritPrayerAcceptingHumbleGods WillSincereSubmissive Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character
“Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that, the power that is LIFE is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble, because you see that see the same divinity in everyone else.” KnowsLife IsAcceptingHumbleManifestationDivinity Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz