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Quotes related to 1 Peter 5:5
The ordinary is not good enough for us; our hubris wants something grandiose. But the ordinary done in obedience to Christ is beautiful, inspired, and oftentimes heroic.
— Edward Welch
People familiar with shame are willing to wash feet, but they are uncomfortable with other people washing their feet. They are better at serving than being served. Well, get used to being served.
— Edward Welch
Augustine wrote, "That first way [to truth] is humility; the second way is humility, and the third way is humility." If humility does not precede our wisdom and help, our efforts are meaningless. Paul, it seems, would agree. Life in Christ starts with humility.
— Edward Welch
When the only one who has a right to be angry chooses love and service, when He considers the interests of others more important than His own and chooses humility—He changes everything (p. 55).
— Edward Welch
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
— Aldous Huxley
If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.
— Mark McKinnon
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?
— Jonah Hill
I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.
— Tim Tebow
Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
— Ignatius of Antioch
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].
— Reinhold Niebuhr