"humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift."

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John Piper

#Humility Quotes #Proud Quotes #Reaching Quotes

“Success...Is all about being able to extend love to people...not in a big capital-letter sense but in the everyday; little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word”
“High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth. Of all our planet's activities - geological movements, the reproduction and decay of biota, and even the disruptive propensities of certain species (elephants and humans come to mind) - no force is greater than the hydrologic cycle.”
“You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it.”
“What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.”
“Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.”

Source : Charles Webster Leadbeater (1909). “Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern”
“Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.”
“I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.”
“Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.”

Source : "'Glenn Beck': Who Is Donald Berwick?". www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2010.

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