Life occasionally humbles us by making us turned on by someone whom we turn off.
The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.
(n.) The quality or state of being meek.
This is God's beauty!The Elegant nature of Esther,The Meek nature of Moses,The Pius nature of Paul,The Passionate nature of Peter,The Just nature of Jesus and thenThe wise nature of you!
Humility is by far the most spiritual virtue of the lot. The only way by which one may cease obsessing over himself is to wholly step outside his flesh. But who could do this by himself? And who would...
The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.
Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly...
It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.
One of the best exercises in meekness we can perform is when the subject Is in ourselves. We must not fret over our own imperfections. Although reason requires that we must be displeased and sorry whe...
A fool mistakes meekness for weakness and a quiet tongue for an idle mind.
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986
Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness.
Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept th...
Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others.
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exaspe...
The beauty of a meek spirit is precious to God
Do not mistake a leader's meekness for weakness.
The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility is a grace of the soul that cannot be expressed in...