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“Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.”

Needs Children Desire Parent Results Humility And Love Inclination Without Love Children And Love

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.”

Ifs Mean Real Self Shows Form Desire Evil Humility Worship Delusion Reverence Wipe Harbors Good Thoughts Humbling Real Self

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that He finds in us that humility which makes us worthy of His gifts, the desire of possessing them, and the promptitude to co-operate industriously with the graces He gives us.”

Giving Desire Doubt Grace Humility Worthy Gods Will No Doubt Possessing

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with all your desires.”

God Desire Humility Absolutes Busy Purity Too Busy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.”

Mean Hands Seems Desire Passion Wealth Poverty Humility Honor Demand Empty Riches Vanity Display Crave Obscurity Furious

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.”

May Enough Desire Born Imagine Style Objects Greatness Produce Humility Passionate Expenses Accuracy Disinterested

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough.”

Ifs Knows May I Can Enough Faces Desire Humility Sight Blind Deeper Intense Steady Veils Rise Above Knowing God Pierce Blind Faith

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.”

Desire Suffering Sound Christ Church Walks Humility Ideals Mark Doctrine Holiness Evangelism Genuineness Sound Doctrine

Author:John Stott

“It's not easy, being the best at what he does but still having the humility and desire to be close to those around him. In private, Messi is a great leader, a great captain. Usually the best in any area see things differently but in this case Leo is still an ordinary person and that makes our relationship work. He's the leader of ARG, he has helped us to reach two finals in one year. I have great respect for Messi the person and player.”

Years Persons Doe Stills Two Desire Easy Leader Cases Player Humility Ordinary Areas Finals Being The Best Our Relationship Captains Great Leader Messi Great Respect Ordinary Person

Author:Javier Mascherano

“Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine power to accomplish what must be done. An individual motivated by a desire for praise or recognition will not qualify to be taught by the Spirit. An individual who is arrogant or who lets his or her emotions influence decisions will not be powerfully led by the Spirit.”