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“The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.”

Men Heart May Book Lost Cities Education Gains Humble Yearning Burned Humble Man

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

“What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?”

Ifs Men Made Spirit Causes Loses Silence Lord Promise Gains Profit Delight Humble Adversaries

Book:The works of the rev. John Newton

Source: The works of the rev. John Newton

“Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace, and that the goodness of the Almighty God is so great that He hears those who invoke His name, and they gain salvation, became humble, acknowledging that they are ignorant, and directed their life as the life of one desiring eternal wisdom. And that is the life of the virtuous, who proceed in the desire for the other life, which is commended by the saints.”

Desire Names Given Saws Grace Goodness Eternal Intellectual Gains Salvation Saint Humble Ignorant Virtuous Almighty Almighty God Invoke Intellectual Life

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning to paint." Renoir carried his gift with a humility which realized how much he still had to learn. Anyone who goes deeply into a field in life and realizes this, gains a sense of proportion that can only make you humble.”

Long Said Stills Ends Realizing Fields Humility Gains Paint Humble Painter Proportion Long Life Impressionists Renoir Great French

Author:Roger Housden

“The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.”

Literature Youth Humility Gains Fortune Seeking Humble Instruction Good Fortune Unassuming

Author:Joseph Addison

“The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.”

People Giving Enough Joy Found Loss Simple Principles Teach Practice Sorrow Gains Humble Fulfillment Laying Down

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

“You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.”

Ifs Suffering Water Accepting Week Gains Humble Bread Worthwhile Receiving Humiliation Scorn

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.”

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings