Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

Charles Spurgeon

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

Charles Spurgeon

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

Alan Watts

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Alan Hansen

Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

Chinua Achebe

Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

Ellen G. White

God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.

Joseph Prince

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Julia Ward Howe

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Neale Donald Walsch

In this complex world, we all need God's Divine wisdom and guidance more than we ever have before.

Neale Donald Walsch

You are always connected to Source. Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are always connected to Divine Wisdom, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Love.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

Said Nursi

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.

Simone Weil

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

Sri Aurobindo

All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and perish. Mahomed himself never pretended that the Koran was the last message of God and there would be no other. God and Truth outlast these religions and manifest themselves anew in whatever way or form the Divine Wisdom chooses.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.