If I can be honest, the real problem with the gap in my countertop was my own pride. It's a sign of imperfection, and I don't like my imperfections to show. Lord, please set my heart free from these prideful tendencies.

We must respect ourselves enough to break the pattern of placing unrealistic expectations on others. After all, people will not respect us more than we respect ourselves.

placing unrealistic expectations on others. After all, people will not respect us more than we respect ourselves.

To love God is to cooperate with His grace.

Ms. Babylon has thus come to see herself as God: "I shall always be here, mistress forever... I and I alone am still here" (Is 47:7, 8). No superpower can ever imagine it will cease to be in power, but this means its pretension is quasi-divine and must be corrected.

But the way Jesus discipled each man proves his humility. To be a crowd-drawing teacher can be a rather heady experience, all eyes looking to you for the next bit of wisdom to drop from your lips. It's easy to be gracious when you're adored. But when your class keeps missing the point, challenging you, running down rabbit trails, changing the subject, misunderstanding, breaking out into a brawl—that's when your character is exposed.

In passing however I must say of one thing that has pressed upon me lately and encreased my Humility and capability of submission and that is this truth - Men of Genius are great as certain ethereal Chemicals operating on the Mass of neutral intellect - but they have not any individuality, any determined Character - I would call the top and head of those who have a proper self Men of Power.

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If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

The best leaders are humble enough to realise their victories depend upon their people.

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.