Humility, Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
An elder replied, ‘I tell you, many have ruined their bodies with no discernment and gone away without finding anything. We may have evil-smelling breath because of our fasting, we may know the Scriptures by heart, we may recite all the psalms. . . and still lack what God is looking for—love and humility.”
–The Desert Fathers
Humility, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
— Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Humility, Page: Quotes, Philip Neri (1515-1595), Quote Author, Quote Topic
To obtain perfectly the gift of humility, four things are required: to despise the world, to despise no person, to despise one’s self, to despise being despised.
— Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Humility, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Humility, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Augustine (354-430), Humility, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great so ever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
