Sentences with phrase «doing humble things»

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People with humble backgrounds going on to do amazing things makes for a very compelling read any day.

«What it has to do with is the fact that the person is not humble enough to accept responsibility when things go wrong, accept that there might be better ways to do things, and they just have a closed mind,» says Jocko Willink, coauthor of Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.

My humble request is that each reader of today's market update does one thing today to help somebody else.

I am humble enough to realize there are many things I don't understand (and perhaps will never understand).

At 62, I have already lived most of my life and I don't quite care about heaven or Hell but I do care about the people with whom I share the earth, my fellow pilgrims, so yes, I would still stick with the Jesus thing as it helps me to remember to be humble, charitable and mindful in my daily walk so that I can contribute positively to the existence of others.

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop... keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you when you decide to study or learn about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless of faith, but look into the scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...

We find that what we can not do through human efforts, can be done by Christ, if we're humble enough to accept it (Remember, the — I believe allegorical — story of the «The Fall» in Genesis was about mankind wanting to do things on its own and be «like God»).

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

This hermeneutic of love is not mere sentimentality, but one that looks to Christ for its definition — Christ, who did not consider power a thing to be grasped, but humbled himself and became a servant to the point of death on a cross.

And if my eyes were more filled with tears than those of a repentant woman, and if each tear were more precious than a pardoned woman's many tears; if I could find a place more humble than the place at his feet, and if I could sit there more humbly than a woman whose heart's sole choice was this one thing needful; if I loved him more sincerely than the most loyal of his servants, eager to shed the last drop of his life - blood in his service; if I had found greater favor in his eyes than the purest among women — nevertheless, if I asked him to alter his purpose, to reveal himself differently, to be more lenient with himself, he would doubtless look at me and say: Man, what have I to do with thee?

Darryl do nt fight the breaking it is the best thing ever we just have to trust the Lord because he knows what he is doing.We loath the process because it is humbling and painful it made me see how prideful i was i did nt want to rely on God or anyone for that matter.

I can be without fear, I can be pacific, irenic, for faith gives to me the surety that the hungry are filled with good things and the humble exalted, and so I need not be resentful, or self - enclosed, or placatory, but rather I strive to understand, as my fellows do, whether they are men of faith or not.

It was in the mood of humble awareness of imperfection and lack of full achievement in Christian experience that Paul wrote, «Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.»

Great leaders are humble, curious and passionate — they are always up for learning more and finding ways to do things better.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

To explain how, he turned to the second chapter of Paul's Letter to the Philippians where the apostle speaks of the self - emptying or kenosis of God: «Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant... [and] humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.»

The fact is that nobody who does things for others to see it as a show is truly humble, and no church is either.

John 12:7 - 8 means that although the poor are always to be served, Mary's humble act is a worthy one and can not be criticized as wasteful; for, in anointing Jesus, she does two things: she declares him to be the anointed one or Messiah, and she points forward to his death, since the dead are prepared for burial with costly ointments.

God does a lot of things to humble us.

Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way of thinking.brentnz

Maybe you need to «go humble» and admit that WE DO N'T KNOW a lot of things (yet), and quit making up imaginary scenarios, with absolutely no verified evidence, to explain the unknown.

Shadowflash, I don't recall your response to any of my posts... I usually do recall them... But I do agree with one thing you said... «human mind hates being wrong» But I see it differently then you do... I see human mind and human understanding being the stumbling block and point of pride, which prevents man from seeing the reality of his real condition, and the need to humble himself in order to be able to see himself as he is, and seek the help of His Creator without whom he is a living, moving shell, yet, without the vital part of him being alive, which would make him complete.

Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble.

To learn to live humble together, but we chose to selfishly do our thing in this society, this world, and this calamity is our own fault as a human race.

Those so inclined will see a humble man of faith, moved to do the right thing by good advice and a thoughtful sermon.

In his efforts to teach in the public square, John Paul II did not» and First Things should not» flinch from this humbling but unavoidable truth.

Towards the end came the Magnficat (the song Luke put into the mouth of Mary the mother of Jesus in his version of the Gospel), with its inspiring poetry, Magnficat anima mea Dominum, «My soul doth magnify the Lord... He that is mighty hath done great things for me: and holy is his name... He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts... He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meek... He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away.»

We just want to celebrate the amazing things our chefs do with the humble vegetable!»

There, exotic ingredients like sour grapes, pomegranate seeds, cinnamon and saffron come together to do amazing things with the humble eggplant and chickpeas.

In my own personal humble opinion, I think investing in a food processor is a smart thing to do if you would like to eat healthier by cooking more from scratch or making homemade versions of store - bought favorites.

However, three of my friends — the three I like the best — said I'd done a lowdown thing, that I had patronized the humble and had thrown down those who had trusted me.

Its either that or he pulls the old «its just a marketing thing where Im endangering children and setting public neuroscience awareness back decades in order to make a couple million extra dollars out of the pockets of suckers» defense, and I just do nt see how a humble classy guy like Wilson would ever cheapen his name by lending it to a bottle of snake oil that could wind up giving its purchasers real - world neurological damage if they were to use it in a manner consistent with what Wilson tells them.

The passion Arsenal fans can show is humbling yet I do feel the passion is being directed in the wrong place and that is why things are not changing.

«It was just the right thing to do,» the humble senior told me, when asked why she had provided a safe haven for Ruth.

When you are trying to do the right thing, it helps to be humble.

When you're trying to do the right thing,» says Zack Fink at Politico NY, «it helps to be humble.»

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

It sounds like you and your doctor husband understand this and are working to increase what you do know while staying honest and humble enough to never lose sight of the fact that there will always be things that you don't know.

Karma Yoga revolves around doing things for the greater good and is the most humbling of the many Yoga limbs.

And in my humble opinion, if you've got those things covered, you can do anything.

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I am a very humble and caring person, i am always very careful of the way i treat people and how others feel about the things i do that might hurt them.

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