“It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.” IfsBelieveLittlesSelfTogetherRememberLife IsSpiritTurnsI BelieveWaterLandHumilityStrangeWalkingHolySacredMovedForgottenI Believe InBonesBelieverDesertLandscapeTestamentGatheringPilgrimageMoved OnMiragesDrawn Together Book:Red: passion and patience in the desert Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert
“We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.” MindIdeasAbleNightKnowledgeMorningPsychologyFrontsHumilityOughtSacredBusyDefinitionsCyclesDivisionCosmologyTotalityLiverSynthesisSpecializationFlukesArcheology Author:Maureen Duffy
“There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.” IfsMeanBookSpiritualFormSpiritualityLearningHumilityExpectationsGardenToolsSacredEmbraceTechniqueTheologyFancyChemicalsGardeningArsenalHybridFertilizerRelinquishingRelinquishing Control Author:Christopher McDowell
“The sacred gift of prayer is in the right hand of our Savior, and according to the measure that you empty yourself of yourself, that is of love of your senses and of your own will, and make progress in rooting yourself in holy humility, to that extent the Lord will speak to your heart.” HeartHandsSpeakPrayerLordProgressHumilityHolyEmptySacredSensesSavior Author:Pio of Pietrelcina
“A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.” WorldKindHelpingChristianChristHumilityReadyMessagesSacredHelping OthersPerformingOur WorldGentlenessUnselfishKind WordsTrue HumilityUnselfish Acts Author:Ellen G. White
“All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.” WaySpiritualChristHumilityDignitySacredTreatedMeekness Author:Ellen G. White
“To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.” MenWorldWayFirstsBookRealityFallSimpleMysteryTreeHumilityJudgingAll ThingsRelationIndependenceRemainsSacredSimplicityCloudsDisappearRichesEncountersRevelationsCosmosGlimpseSyllablesFall Into PlaceAll That Remains Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility… A man is a sacred thing. ANY ACTION OR THOUGHT WHICH INJURES THE HUMAN IMAGINATION IS EVIL.” MenHumansDoneActionEvilImaginationDangerGreatnessHumilityDutySacredCleanHuman ImaginationSacred Things Author:Kenneth Patchen
“Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.” InspirationalSelfHumilitySacredNutsSanctuary Author:Leo Rosten
“Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by the view from our elevation - off west the lights of Montana, Hungry Horse, and Columbia Falls, and farmsteads along the northern edge of Flathead Lake, and back in the direction of sunrise the soft and misted valleys of the parklands, not an electric light showing: little enough to preserve for the wanderings of a great and sacred animal who can teach us, if nothing else, by his power and his dilemma, a little common humility.” IfsLittlesEnoughLightFallFoundSleepAnimalViewsCommonTeachSkyHumilityMountainHorseSacredMovedWestEdgesHungryWanderBrokePreservesLakesValleysElectricSunriseDilemmaMontanaElevationColumbiaGlaciersElectric LightHuckleberry Author:William Kittredge
“If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.” IfsStatesMomentsCrazyHumilityWorshipSacredConstantBreathingAweFinding YourselfAmazedThankfulness Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon