"Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin."

Humility, Truth, Religion, Observation

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"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Humility, Right, Self

"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Humility, Empathy, Nobility, Perspective

"A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything knows how little he knows."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Humility, Knowledge, Morality, Wisdom

"I don't know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman - your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don't know what to make of it."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Humility, Judgment, Relationship, Emotion

"It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper.Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Humility, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Regret

"I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Humility, Arrogance, Universe, Secrets, Conceit

"All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers."

Habeeb Akande, British Historian

Humility, Truth, Observation, Life

"Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Humility, People, Christian, Poverty, Crime

"We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of ego and habit."

A.J. Darkholme, American Author

Humility, Growth, Learning, Perspective

"Humility and full consciousness are inseparable."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Humility, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom, Power

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"It makes a great difference to the look of a novel whether its author believes that the world came late into being and continues to come by a creative act of God, or whether he believes that the world and ourselves are the product of a cosmic accident. It makes a great difference to his novel whether he believes that we are created in God's image, or whether he believes we create God in our own. It makes a great difference whether he believes that our wills are free, or bound like those of the other animals."

Religion

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Art

"Conviction without experience makes for harshness."

Experience

"When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."

Business

"Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka."

Humor

"The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live."

Creativity

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

People

"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

Old

"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."

Will

"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."

Life