His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.

Meekness and lowliness of heart are to be the distinguishing feature of the disciple, just as they were of the Master. And further, that this humility is not something that will come of itself, but that it must be made the object of special desire, prayer, faith, and practice.

In the life of earnest Christians who pursue and profess holiness, humility ought to be the chief mark of their uprightness.

The humble man feels no jealousy or envy. He can praise God when others are preferred and blessed before him. He can bear to hear others praised and himself forgotten, because in God's presence he has learnt to say with Paul, 'I am nothing.' He has received the spirit of Jesus, who pleased not Himself, and sought not His own honour, as the spirit of his life.

For this reason, let us put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and long-suffering. Let us prove our Christlikeness, not only in our zeal for saving the lost, but also openly in all our interactions with the brethren, by being tolerant and forgiving one another, even as the Lord forgave us

Come and let us flee to Jesus, and hide ourselves in Him until we be clothed upon with His humility.

It is not until Christians study the humility of Jesus as the very essence of His redemption, as the only true relationship to the Father, that the terrible lack of actual, heavenly humility will become a burden and a sorrow.