Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn McGrath

The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.

Madeleine L'Engle

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

Jonathan Edwards

All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.

Jonathan Edwards

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

Jonathan Edwards

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

Jonas Salk

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

Joyce Carol Oates

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Meher Baba

One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

Mary Oliver

In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

Martin Buber

God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?

Martin Buber

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.

Pope Benedict XVI

Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

Pope Benedict XVI

The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience of human weakness, has had the humility to ask for his help, has been healed by him and has set out following closely after him, becoming a witness of the power of his merciful love that is stronger than sin and death.

Pope John Paul II

Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.

Pindar

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

Pope Francis

You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!

Pope Francis

How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.

Pope Francis

If there is no humility, love remains blocked.

Pope Francis

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

Pope Francis

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

Pope Francis

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

Paulo Coelho

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.

Rachel Carson

I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.

Rachel Carson

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Rachel Carson

As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.

Prince Andrew

There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.

Prince Charles

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

Pico Iyer

Travel is an act of humility

Philip Yancey

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

Philip Yancey

We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit that we have failed, are failing, and always will fail.

Philip Yancey

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

Naveen Jain

I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.