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“One of the most disruptive forces in the Church is arrogance. It is natural for people to bring their pride to Church, and try to prove their own greatness to others. This is an urge we need to constantly be fighting”

People Needs Trying Fighting Force Natural Church Greatness Pride Prove Arrogance Urges Disruptive

Author:Dan Schilling

“If laying aside all worldly Greatness and Vain-Glory, I should be ask'd where I thought it was most probable that Men might enjoy true Happiness, I would prefer a small peaceable Society, in which Men, neither envy'd nor esteem'd by Neighbours, should be contented to live upon the Natural Product of the Spot they inhabit, to a vast Multitude abounding in Wealth and Power, that should always be conquering others by their Arms Abroad, and debauching themselves by Foreign Luxury at Home.”

Ifs Men Should Home Might Asks Enjoy Natural Wealth Greatness Products Arms Glory Envy Esteem Spots Luxury Conquer Vain Multitudes Worldly Neighbour True Happiness Conquering Others

Book:The Fable of the Bees

Source: The Fable of the Bees

“We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.”

Natural Pleasure Greatness Ambition Conscience Rejects Willpower Suitable Be Humble

Book:The Complete Essays of Montaigne

Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne

“There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great and noble. They possessed a natural majesty that was not put on and taken off at pleasure, as was that of certain eastern monarchs when they put on or took off their garments of Tyrian dye. It is hoped that this is not wholly lost from the world, although the sense of earthly vanity inculcated by Christianity may have swallowed it up in humility.”

World May Certain Lost Natural Pleasure Christianity Virtue Taken Greatness Humility Ancient Noble Vanity Tone Peculiar Heroic Possessed Eastern Majesty Garments Monarchs

Book:Tales, Poems, and Other Writings

Source: Tales, Poems, and Other Writings

“A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.”

Knows Men Natural Know How Greatness Dresses Great Men Poetic Precision Dine

Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”

Men Humans Made Sometimes Action Fall Natural Justice Human Beings Inspiring Poverty Generations Greatness Tasks Overcoming Slavery Charity Humanitarian Apartheid

Author:Nelson Mandela

“We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.”

Needs Christian Joy Natural Greatness Habit Worship Flow Endless Celebrate Yield Godly Thankfulness Zeal Psalms Graciousness Christian Worship

Author:J. I. Packer

“We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.”

Should Mind God Science Nature Natural Greatness Finite Majesty

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.”

“Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.”

Ifs Trying Long Doe Truth Remember Natural Trouble Greatness Standards Ideals Remembered Faithful Being Faithful

Book:Of Literature

Source: Of Literature

“Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.”

Men Persons Inspiration Faith Natural Forget Greatness Christian Inspirational Reconcile

Author:Pope John Paul II

“The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident and removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious: and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed we should rather be surprised that it has subsisted for so long.”

Source: The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire