"Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one's own limitations, not to force issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism, the meekness of the Lamb which is led."

-- Hans Urs von Balthasar

#Lying Quotes #Hero Quotes #Humility Quotes

“Forget what you are supposed to do, do what you want to do.”
“Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.”
“Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.”
“Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!”
“The means of many outweigh the means of the few or one.”
“As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.”
“People are the same wherever you go. And if they weren't, they wouldn't laugh at the same s**t.”
“Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeareâ€™s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture. We are dealing with Godâ€™s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.”

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