“When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms, we find out who we really are. We’re so little, so poor, so emptyand a shock to ourselves. But the Biblical God takes away our shame, and we are eventually able to present ourselves in an honest and humble form. Then we find out who we really are and who God is for usand it is more than enough. That is how an enslaved people became God’s people, Israel.” PeopleLittlesEnoughAbleFormPoorTakenHonestSecurityShameIsraelHumbleDefenseShockIdolsMechanismBiblicalWho God IsDefense Mechanisms Author:Aaron Lines
“True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.” SpeakSilenceTakenHumilityOppositesHumbleCreditAccomplishmentSilence IsBe HumbleTrue Humility Author:Laozi
“The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others—or allow ourselves to be taken—with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.” IfsSpiritWorkPathTakenNiceCallingTravelEnlightenmentMereHumbleCardsImpressNice To Meet You Author:Philip Toshio Sudo
“What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.” HumansIndividualBornTechnologyTakenClearPureHumbleAssumptionInitiativeEmergenciesMeasurementProgressionDeductionsIrrepressible Book:Earth, Inc. Source: Earth, Inc.
“There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.” GivingMayEndsSpiritMy OwnTakenComfortMercyPerseveranceLeavingHumbleWoundsGods WillBereavementPledgeGreat GiftsLeaving Him Book:Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman Source: Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman