"It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity."

Humility, Divinity, Self

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"It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity."

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"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

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"To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser."

Donald L. Hicks, American Author

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

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"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

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

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"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

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

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"A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then."

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"I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago."

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"The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit."

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"The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea."

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"Work at being a humble person."

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"Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did."

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"I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress."

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"I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been."

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"Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church."

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"If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more."

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