How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don’t police the world. That’s conservative, it’s Republican, it’s pro-American – it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
Ron Paul
Humble
Our government needs the
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
Ronald Reagan
America is a melting
America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity to all citizens, no matter how humble their background, so they could climb higher, help build the American dream, and leave a better life for those who follow. Ronald Reagan
Politics and morality are
Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality’s foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
Ronald Reagan
Would you become a
Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
Rumi
Humble yourself, you’ll grow
Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.
Rumi
Humble living does not
Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
Rumi
In questions of science,
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
Fasting cleanses the soul
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.
Saint Augustine