"Richard Foster (Christian theologian and author in the Quaker tradition) defines humility not as a 'less-than' type of self-abasement, but as an ability to 'live as close to the truth as possible; the truth about ourselves, the truth about others, the truth about the world in which we live.' When we are humble, we are un-fussily realistic about our strengths and weaknesses -- about what we are capable of and what we are not. We are also clear on the fact that we are not God, and that we cannot heal or transform ourselves on our own. Thus, when growth or change happens, it is only in humility that we can identify God's care and provision for us." -- Carolyn Arends, "Lessons from an Usher," Christianity Today, December 2011.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Francis Bacon
We must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is like a big electric blanket when, of course, it is the cross. It is much harder to believe than not to believe. - Flannery O'Connor
There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. ~ Thomas Merton
I shall not grow conservative with age. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Pray as if everything depended on God. Act as if everything depended on you. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
“If you always do what you've always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.”
(I'm guessing this is not an attributable quote, more of an expression I've heard AA/NA folks use, but I like it).
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