"Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and gave life to the fallen. O abyss of humility! Adam and Eve lost themselves through gluttony, the Lord fasted and died for them, in order to give them life. They were disobedient, Christ fulfilled obedience."

-- John of Kronstadt

#Christian Quotes #Humility Quotes #Pride Quotes

“Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.”

Source : Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.216, RosettaBooks
“Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.”

Source : Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My Life and Some Letters”
“And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.”
“An electron is real; a probability is not.”

Source : "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.
“I believe in spiritual technology.”
“It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
“We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind Travolta, and when he opened the door, it was as if Jesus had just walked out into the commons.”
“What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?”

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