Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Spare the conquered and confront the proud.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

Go back to Socrates: Know thyself. For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints. Which are you?

High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.

Socrates: "Know thyself." For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints.

St. Thomas thus detects a primary source of presumption in seeking genuinely good things, like human happiness on earth, as if we did not need divine grace to attain them; and in the hope that we can obtain God's pardon and mercy without our confessing and repenting of sin.

Grace is not in nature so much as nature is in grace. Saint Thérèse said, on her deathbed, "Everything is grace.