Being Humble, Are You?

“In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving”
William Arthur Ward
(American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)

“The more a person analyzes his inner self, the more insignificant he seems to himself. This is the first lesson of wisdom. Let us be humble, and we will become wise. Let us know our weakness, and it will give us power.”
William Ellery Channing
(American moralist, Unitarian Clergyman and Author, 1780-1842)

“My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.”
Robert E. Lee

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
Albert Einstein
(German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
C.S. Lewis
(British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Albanian born Indian Missionary and Founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity. Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979. 1910-1997)

“The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.”
James Matthew Barrie
(Scottish Dramatist and Novelist best known as the creator of Peter Pan, 1860-1937)

“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
Benjamin Franklin
(American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
Norman Vincent Peale
(American Protestant Clergyman and Writer, 1898-1993)

“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”
Blaise Pascal
(French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
John Wooden
(American , b.1910)

“Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.”
Douglas MacArthur
(American General who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II, 1880-1964)

“Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

“Don't be humble. You aren't that great.”
Golda Meir
(Israeli Founder and Prime Minister. 1898-1978)

“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble
[James 4:6]”

Being Humble

I am a humbled person,
when my eyes are on someone, but not me.
I am humbled in the presence
of someone longing to be free.

I am so very humble,
when I see the hurting and the lost.
I am also humble
in the presence of Jesus and the Cross.

See, the reason this makes me humble,
is because God opened my eyes to see.
If not for His love and grace,
there never would be a me.

It is nothing I ever did,
or could ever hope to do.
It is because He looked down from above
and said, “I love you!”

E. P. Shagott
2/8/10

From God's heart, to mine, to yours,
Ed Shagott