How are the mighty fallen!

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

Vain war with Heaven; and, by success untaught, His proud imaginations thus displayed:—

Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King:

What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary—if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?

If you want to be your own god, you have to settle for living in a tiny universe where there is room for only one person.

Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.

God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it—except one. And he was the Messiah.

But if men will not forego all pre-imbibed opinions, prejudices, and conceptions of mind, however rivetted into them by traditions, custom, veneration of elders, and secular advantages, to hearken unto and receive whatever he shall speak unto them, and that with a humble, lowly frame of heart, they will never learn the truth, nor attain a "full assurance of understanding" in the mysteries of God.

Wherefore, as the elect of God, let us put on humility in all things; and let me add, that there is no grace whereby at this day we may more glorify God and the gospel, now the world is sinking into ruin under the weight of its own pride.

But God himself hath plainly declared what are the qualifications of those souls which are meet to be made partakers of divine teachings, or ever shall be so; and these are, as they are frequently expressed, meekness, humility, godly fear, reverence, submission of soul and conscience unto the authority of God, with a resolution and readiness for and unto all that obedience which he requireth of us, especially that which is internal in the hidden man of the heart.