#Humility

"The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies."

"He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner."

"The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much."

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

"Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success."

"She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude."

"In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own."

"Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers."

"The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies."

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

"Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do."

"The soul is healed by being with children."

"It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity."

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

"The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it."

"It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)"

"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."

"A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour."

"Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives."

"To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer."