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The 'HIGHway' to peace is humility!

The higher your ego rises the lower your soul descends.

The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

The Honey that Adorns my soul to Network with all Nobility in an Affable Humility means Hannah

The Holy Spirit builds on the smooth ground of humility. That's why God will tear you down in order to build you back up.

The Holy Spirit's instruments have no consciousness of His purpose; if they imagine they have, it is a pretty sure token that they are NOT His instruments. Nathaniel Hawthorne

The humble woman is surprised by all the good that she sees around her rather than scandalized by what she cannot judge anyway. The humble woman is grateful for her successes but not disheartened by her failures. She enjoys her gifts and readily admits her mistakes. She maintains a sense of humor, whether the news from Wall Street is giddy or glum. She faces her character defects without getting discouraged. Her humble confidence in God’s love and her enchantment with the kabod Yahweh shape a hedge of thorns against self-absorption and frees her for an unselfconscious presence to others.

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.

The humble man feels no jealousy or envy. He can praise God when others are preferred and blessed before him. He can bear to hear others praised and himself forgotten, because in God's presence he has learned to say with Paul 'I be nothing' (2 Corinthians 12:11). He has received the spirit of Jesus, who did not please Himself and did not seek His own honor, as the spirit of his life.

The humble accept truth easier than the proud.

The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.

The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and Bar shoulder their responsibilities seriously.

The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.

The King of Glory does not reward His servants according to the dignity of their office, but according to the humility and love with which they have exercised it.

The leader must have both – the courage to take the people to a daring destination and the humility to selflessly serve others on the journey.

The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors — more than I can even fathom coping with. I will strive to find a way to turn pity into admiration, for what use is it to send pity back at the world. Admiration and awe are much more helpful, especially when I find myself feeling like a victim for being stuck in traffic or losing my favorite sweater. Perspective is a blessing.

The Lord says, if you move away from your ego, if you maintain humility (utmost humbleness), then you and I are the same. Otherwise, you and I are separate.

The man of good character is humble before those less educated than him, compassionate to those less fortunate than him, and kind to those inferior to him.

The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold..." A warning against the smugness of inherited faith.

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them.

The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.

The measure of a man is not so much how tall he stands but how low he kneels.

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.

The minute you think you have the right to belittle others because you think you’re better than them is the same minute you’ve proven you’re worse.

The more broken you are, the more light gets through.

[T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction. {Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal}

the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness.

The more power we gain to influence the lives of others, the more humble we must become, or else, our downfall is ensured.

The most secretive news that can make you to shake hands with great people is humility. Pride on the other way is a dream killer.

The one who is born of the earth, dreams of the sky. The one who is born of the sky, dreams of the earth.

the most lovable of exceptional American qualities (is) our tradition of insisting that we are part of the middle class, even if we aren’t, and of interacting with our fellow citizens as if we were all middle class.

The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.

The only competition in art is the search for truth. No matter who gets there first, we all win.

The only path to real promotion is to humble yourself and make yourself of no reputation and then begin to give yourself to other people and serve them.

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

The One who devours (completely destroys) our ego and makes us viraat (divine & huge) is called the viraat-svaroop (divine manifestation). Only before a viraat-svaroop will anyone bow down.

The opposite of Faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of Faith is certainty”...”Being humble before God means accepting that you may not possess the only path to Him.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

The path to wisdom is paved with humility.

The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. "Know yourself." "Nothing in excess." and, "Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.

The painter was pleased with her work. She had managed to catch her sitter's characteristic expression—the look of a good child, a wondering sort of look, innocent and serious. It was humility, thought Rhoda. That was the keynote of Bel's character. Rhoda had never prized this virtue—she had thought it overrated—but now she realised that she had been mistaken. Humility was not just an absence of pride; it was not a negative virtue; it was a definite 'fruit of the spirit.' False humility was horrible, of course (vide Uriah Heap), but real humility, growing from within, was beautiful.

The Patriots had picked Brady in the sixth round, and he soon turned out to be one of the two or three best quarterbacks in the League, and absolutely perfect for the Belichick system and for the team's offense. So, as the team continued to make a series of very good calls on other player personnel choices, there was a general tendency to talk about how brilliant Pioli and Belichick were, and to regard Pioli as the best young player personnel man in the League. Just to remind himself not to believe all the hype and that he could readily have screwed up on that draft, Pioli kept on his desk a photo of Brady, along with a photo of the team's fifth-round traft choice, the man he had taken ahead of Brady: Dave Stachelski. He was a Tight End from Boise State who never a played a down for New England. Stachelski was taken with the 141st pick, Brady with the 199th one. 'If I was so smart,' Pioli liked to say, 'I wouldn't have risked an entire round of the draft in picking Brady.

The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause

The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.

The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the world but eyes focused on what is good, never caring about spectators or the cost. He is proud that his wife can laugh, that his children can play, humbled by their love for him. His prayers say, "Please make me worthy of them" - In humility lies the foundation of strength.

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better and while you live life thinking that you're the best, truth is a lot of people around you are already better and becoming even more better.