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Saint Augustine

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

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Donna Grant

"It's no shame in reaching second or third base if you aimed for first base."

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Donna Grant

"As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive."

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Donna Grant

"From the moment you realize, 'I am the most worthless person in this world'; you become valuable."

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Donna Grant

"But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility - the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small - the world will then know peace."

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Donna Grant

"If a person does five samayiks (introspective meditation) he will say, 'I did five'- and this is how he will taste the sweetness of the subtle-pride of doership. Actually what he should say is, 'it was due to God's grace that I was able to do five samayik'. He should not taste the sweetness of subtle pride of doership."

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Donna Grant

"Great people do not struggle for their position."

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Donna Grant

"A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish, so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care."

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Donna Grant

"The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men."

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Donna Grant

"Humility puts others first because "first" takes on new meaning through the practice of humility."

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Donna Grant

"Humility is not thinking less of myself, but thinking about myself less."

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Saint Augustine
"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Anger

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Saint Augustine
"Punishment is justice for the unjust."

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Saint Augustine
"Love is the beauty of the soul."

Beauty

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Saint Augustine
"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."

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Saint Augustine
"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

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Saint Augustine
"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?"

Belief

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Saint Augustine
"The purpose of all wars, is peace."

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Saint Augustine
"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."

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Saint Augustine
"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."

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Saint Augustine
"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."

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