Thomas Merton: Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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- Honor is a first thing that makes every other thing in life work. The only thing that comes before honor is the one thing that makes honor possible: Humility. Dishonor on every level stems from pride. Think Kingdom...Be humble...Do Honor = Have Success!
- 'Blind spots' are invisible areas of our lives that build invisible walls around us which cause visible success or outcomes to allude us.
- If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and not only yonder. (Letter 368 to Stefano Maconi)
- Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.