"God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride."
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"Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis."
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"Humility is attentive patience."
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"Pride divides the men, humility joins them."
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"Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided."
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"I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism"
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"Humility is no substitute for a good personality."
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"Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life."
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"I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary."
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"Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions."
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"It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone."
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"It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come."
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"By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth."
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"It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance."
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"Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace."
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"The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us."
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"If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed."
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"There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate."
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"Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless."
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"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."
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