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“People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.”

People Reason Asks Failing Humility Serious Take Time It Takes Time Right Questions

Author:William Maxwell

“We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit that we have failed, are failing, and always will fail.”

World Church Failing Humility Offers Formulas Formula For Success Contrition

Book:Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?

Source: Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?

“With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.”

Hands Turns Study Failing Example Humility Obstacles Indifference Guidance Warning Traps Blindness Hazards Confronting

Book:Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature

Source: Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature

“though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.”

Doe Real Soul Facts Spiritual Bits Failing Humility Eating Upset Worms Shortcomings Acknowledgement

Author:Evelyn Underhill

“It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.”

Love Believe May Mother Found Sin Love Is Greater Failing Humility Daughter Gains Corners Commit Occasions Midst My Daughter Believe In Me Lapses

Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

“1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.”

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”