Sentences with phrase «humility make»

What Maguire lacks in humility he makes up for in dry wit («This is Times Square... Burbank»), and for all his movie - star petulance (sustained grudges about the day they made a cast of his torso and the unreliability of the Spidey costume's zipper), he redeems himself in such pithy summaries of his good fortune as his closing statement: «It's cool to play Spider - Man.»

Not exact matches

And this salesmanship makes humility difficult to achieve.

Having the humility to win quietly, makes winning a deeper experience for us and for all of those who helped us to get to the top.

«I make silly videos for YouTube,» says Brad, with a warm, self - deprecating humility that speaks to his small - town Tennessee upbringing.

Learn how make small talk, network, get to know people and exercise humility and appreciation.

«Become a life learner (of yourself) with humility and grace, and give it away to the people who will make this world a better place.»

Own your mistakes and move forward with humility, knowing it's okay to make mistakes because you are human.

Dalio encourages all employees to have healthy senses of humility, and to make changes internally in response to criticism.

But according to interesting new research out of Duke University, all these tricks probably won't do you much good if you don't have one other essential ingredient of sensible decision making — intellectual humility.

Some leaders have long understood the importance of «intellectual humility» then, but it's clear from both the current political climate and plenty of business missteps that not everyone has internalized the value of incorporating a whole lot of humility into your decision making.

When it comes to good decision making, qualities like intelligence, patience, curiosity, and self - control get talked about all the time, but intellectual humility is less often mentioned.

What they lacked in humility and ethics they made up for in tenacity.

She oversees a team that stresses humility and relationship building in business, making sure Credit Karma's innovation isn't the only thing setting the company apart.

This comes with the humility listed first that we see every day in the best investors, and it also comes with having made mistakes by treading too far outside the circle.

This is why divine incarnation, according to the hymn in Philippians 2, shows us God in lowliness and humility: It is quite a come - down for the immortal and incorruptible God to take up our mortality and corruptibility, making it his own.

his whole point was that those who * feign * humility in claiming «no one can make such exclusive claims» are actually DOING the very thing to which they're objecting.

thanks for providing an interesting view point about how God has been secularized and how we human beings are lacking the humility that can make this world, and this country a better place to live.

Plus, the gospel rejects such false humility because it makes real objective claims about real life.

do I make others pay or do I try to make myself the heal, feigning humility while relishing the abuse?

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.»

It is part of what makes Rachel so admirable - she speaks with humility and conviction.

I am saying tread with humility because these are extraordinary accusations to make of anyone.

When both parties look to the example of Jesus, decisions can be made together, with mutual humility, gentleness, and deference.

If this is the choice you need to make, embrace humility and reap the harvest later.

This woman should have checked with her sponsor to see if this disclosure was made for selfish purposes — and she speaks of humility...?

So the virtues of humility and resignation are rejected as despicable, and every effort is made to show that they have nothing to do with Christianity — in spite of all the biblical passages to the contrary.

Louder than Words encourages and motivates those stuck in a rut of tepid or untapped faith to take the plunge, make the effort and leaving false humility behind, to aim high.

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

There are other things that are made much clearer in Scripture and in the teachings of Jesus, so we all have to start with a posture of humility, and a posture of listening, and maybe even a commitment to disagree well.

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

Then we could be redeemed from our grim failures of Christian instruction in sin and humility — from an excess or lack of humility that makes us illusion - prone disciples.

For another, even setting aside his many other contributions, were it not for the humility of Benedict, whose resignation made way for a successor, there would not be a new pope.

In a 1932 essay «Christianity and Communism» (The Listener), Eliot argued that only the Christian scheme made a place for those values «which I maintain or perish, the belief, for instance, in holy living and holy dying, in sanctity, chastity, humility, austerity.»

The Queen's emphasis, however, is not nationalistic but contributory and it is certainly not rooted in Kennedy's optimistic humanism — «Our problems are man - made — therefore, they can be solved by man» — but in profound humility under God.

Scripture makes it clear that God's ways are not our ways, so practicing some humility in this area is wise.

This apparent humility that is actually passivity is tempted to even greater extremes as our academic institutions become larger, cultivate more specialized faculties, and thus make possible more accurate teaching and scholarship and more penetrating specialized inquiry.

They are the persons who, in simplicity of spirit, in comforted sorrow, in humility, in yearning aspiration after goodness, in compassion for others, in purity of heart, in peace - making, and in faithful devotion even to the point of persecution, seek after God and his kingdom.

I hope, if you can see the merit or humility in making room for other people's ideas, that you'll join me in affirming Tony's freedom to change his mind a little bit here.

Knowledge of limits, especially of the intricacy of the ecosystems, makes humility and care a much more natural response.

Philosopher Donna Haraway suggests that our strategy must be to «negotiate the very fine line between appropriation of another's (never innocent) experience and the delicate construction of the just - barely - possible... connections that might actually make a difference... «17 Power - brokered objectivity has no role here; humility and a capacity to take risks do.

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

Qwerty... What most don't like about «The Big Book» is it outlines a plan for self improvement that involves humility, personal honesty and making amends.

Such humility does not exclude the ecstatic joy of receiving the Spirit of God, or the peace of agape with God and the neighbour, but it is joy and peace made possible within love's work of forgiveness.

And don't give us this «sting of humility» crap if you believe that you are made in the image of a God, the most powerful force in the universe listens to you telepathically, and you are immortal.

Politics is about making prudential judgements, and an awareness that any such judgement has at least some chance of being wrong should add a bit of humility and understanding to political debate.

But it's never better than when it's questioning its hero's hubris, and works in a theme about the power of humility that would make Brene Brown stand up and cheer.

She referred to the debate you mentioned and, with lighthearted humility, admitted her side had been defeated, but then she showed two interviews of Prof Hitchens and Stephen Fry she had made immediately after the debate and the two atheists seemed rather pathetic to me.

Beauty facilitates the openness that makes contact with God possible; it creates humility, simplicity, awe, desire.

Well, the sort of values which will make you either hot or cold to Jesus... values such as kindness, generosity, humility, patience, love, self - control, and other such Christlike attitudes.

When pondering the nativity, I've heard much made of the fact that the manger is a place of great humility for the King of Kings to be found, and rightly so.