"Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise."

Humility, Learning, Practice, Character

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"Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise."

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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

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Humility, Kindness, Generosity, Secrecy

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Humility, God, Man, Mankind, Study

"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

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Humility, Success, God, Discovery

"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

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"The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himself to Christians: the sympathy and the history are already there."

Religion

"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."

Religion

"Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots."

Religion

"To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes."

Religion

"SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence."

Morality

"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"

Morality

"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."

Legacy

"The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living."

Understanding

"Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism."

Criticism

"Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society."

Understanding