Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...

Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful or bold then, he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.

Nothing is more poisonous than the spirit of entitlement that permeates our culture and sometimes, sadly, our churches.

Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.

true spirituality will never submit to pride.

The hallmark of conversion is to see one's own spiritual poverty. arrogance and conceit ought to be inimical to the life of the believer. A deep awareness of one's own new hungers and longings is a convincing witness both to God and God's grace within.

We have to be willing to lay aside our own desires.

If you can't be corrected, you have a problem with pride. If you rebel against authority, if you want to take all the credit and glory to yourself, if you say "I" too often, then you have a problem with pride. It