 Humility is truth. Author: Desiderius Erasmus |
| If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart. Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God. Author: E.M. Bounds |
| The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Author: Francis Quarles |
| Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. Author: Francis Quarles |
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| Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth. Author: Francis Quarles |
| If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Author: Francis Quarles |
| Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. Author: Francis de Sales |
| A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
| With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
