Sentences with phrase «of humility from»

Parents and SLTs alike were asked about the levels of assistance being provided, and there was a degree of humility from the schools that the parents did not seem to think was needed.

The strategic ineptitude, albeit in a desperate context for the rebels, invites a degree of humility from them now.

Not exact matches

There are a host of articles out there urging leaders to demonstrate some of humanity's most prized virtues, qualities like honesty, humility, and empathy (as you can see from the links, I've written a few of them myself.)

Researchers from the National University of Singapore and Arizona State University looked specifically at humility in leaders and found that humble CEOs foster more effective, profitable teams.

Throughout the battle, American leaders from sergeants to generals used combinations of humor, humility, initiative, bravery and leadership by example to calm, inspire and direct their forces from determined defense to a determined counter-attack and eventual victory.

When you need help — no matter the kind of help you need or the person you need it from — take the bass out of your voice, the stiffness out of your spine, and the captain out of your industry and simply say, with sincerity and humility, «Can you help me?»

«Everything we hear from clients is about the human aspects of leadership: vulnerability, 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 investing, it's important to maintain humility, study history, learn from mistakes and test investment ideas - the foundations of both Ray Dalio's, and the Investment Masters success.

Saffo says Facebook suffers from a lack of humility.

Challenging conventional wisdom and rational thought, non conformism, humility, independent thinking, intuition above induction, adopting a multi-disciplinary mindset, learning from mistakes and indeed, happily abandoning the ideas he knew were wrong; creativity and imagination and of course, curiosity.

Her speech is rapid, personal, occasionally random, bursting from the seams of stark humility and charming wit.

Be it from the Koran, King James Bible, The Torah, The buddest Teachings of spirituality and humility etc..

As is often the case when we have entered contexts foreign to us in the posture of humility and learning, we were moved not only by how much we share in common with «the other,» but how much we have to learn from them:

Maybe have a little humility and admit you can't understand, rather than pretend you can demolish — in your mind — a human legacy that has endured through thousands of years and continues to this day to inspire and transform people from all walks of life and faiths.

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.»

A judge must have humility to seek his primary insights from outside his own moral reasoning: from the text of a constitutional provision, its historical background, the nation's widely recognized traditions, and the democratic body that passed the law that the judge is reviewing.

I learned about equality even from Paul, who taught that with the resurrection, something radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with women he called «co-workers.»

All our thoughts, intentions and actions must be buttressed by the kind of humility that acknowledges our limitations as well as our incredible possibilities from God's point of view.

We affirm the joy that comes from practicing the timeless virtues that form the character of Christ within us» discipline, self - sacrifice, courage, humility, patience, charity, truthfulness, and personal integrity.

Yet, it prevents him from using this as an alibi by adding that the factor which keeps the disease from being controlled is «alcoholic thinking» — selfishness, fear, resentment, lack of humility — matters for which the alcoholic is responsible.

As Bishop Rawlinson again quotes from Johannes Weiss, «He only can understand the secret of the Cross who has disposed himself towards service, humility, renunciation, suffering, and martyrdom.»

This blog from the non-believer in God hits to the heart of AA — humility!

No, the privileged Christian's response to different viewpoints from members of oppressed groups should be marked with an eagerness to learn, a desire to stand in solidarity, and great humility.

«On a day», the paper continued, «when Francis delivered a warm address to his cardinals and continued to project [my italics] humility» (for all the world as though the new Pope were performing some kind of PR operation) «the Vatican seemed intent on quickly putting to rest questions about the Pope's past, dismissing them as opportunistic defamations from anticlerical leftists.

When one looks for the secret of such goodness in others or in gratitude thanks God for such a measure of victory as has come to his own life, the explanation lies in humility, loving outreach, a sense of divine forgiveness, and power that comes from dwelling in «the secret place of the Most High.»

The value of faith stems not from the irrationality of its object but from the humility that is required to see the truth which is accepted, and the courage required to act upon it.

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.

The problem is that this is dangerously different from the heart of Jesus and the kingdom he came to declare: small, on the margins, ordinary, obscure, focused on faithfulness and humility that requires dying to ourselves.

The «humility» that is usually (but not always) present in 12 - Step Program communities comes from «bottoming - out», coming to the end of one's psychological / social resources while experiencing life's challenges.

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.

We can learn from these past mistakes, and in a spirit of deep humility and penitence before our God acknowledge the guilt of past generations which clings to us who strive today to bear the joyous message of Christ.

But recently, as I've been pondering the paralysis of my own insecurities and thinking about Peter Rollins» challenge to dialog from a position of humility, I got to wondering if I could survive without my opinions.

Other examples of moral heroism may be drawn from medieval romance, in which young knights like Gawain and Percival are presented as imperfect but persevering questers who develop virtues of truth - keeping, courtesy and humility to match their physical prowess and bravery.

«What separates me from most so - called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos,» he explained

So rather than thinking less of self, true humility and true liberation comes from thinking of yourself LESS.

Although I never met him, I know from mutual friends that Leff's Yale Law School colleagues revered him because he combined acute critical intellect with an unusual measure of humility and sympathy.

Homiletics these days allows itself to be approached from many different angles, biblical, theological and occasionally historical but only if one assumes the posture of humility that Bartlett suggests.

got ta love the humility of the church... «we have the power to decide by who, how and when someone can be saved from an eternity in hell... just don't miss the window that we set — ONE WEEK ONLY — ONE LOCATION — OUR ABORTION FORGIVENESS RATES CA N'T BE BEAT!!»

«Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves» (Philippians 2:3).

It may be that kerygmatic allusions to Jesus» humility, meekness, gentleness, love, forgiveness and obedience derive from historical memory of Jesus; but the «historical value» which such material may have is far from its kerygmatic meaning, which is more accurately stated by Bultmann, in language actually intended to state the significance of the pre-existence in the karygma: «That Jesus, the historical person, did this service for us, and that he did it not out of personal sympathy and loveableness, but rather by God acting in him, in that God established his love for us through Jesus dying for us sinners (Rom.

The religious person is saved from fanaticism both by the humility that prevents him from identifying himself and the objects of his wants with the supremely worthful and by his recognition that every attained or any conceivable good falls short of absolute and final perfection.

The real essence of Hasidism is revealed not so much in its concepts as in the three central virtues which derive from these concepts: love, joy, and humility.

Sometimes I stay if the situation could be helped by some compassion and guidance from the flock, and willingness and humility on the part of leadership.

But this is not merely an example of humility (girding with a towel is the action of a slave, 13:4); the deeper point is that the disciple's real cleansing from sin will be consummated in an even greater act of humility than this one — in the death of Christ itself.

Liberals encourage an openness to truth from any source, a tolerance for a variety of viewpoints, and a humility that bases its claims on probabilities rather than certainties.

Is the way Dmitry's sensual humility — singing praises of the earthgod from the subterranean depths, or worse (if he and Grushenka made good their escape to America), from some farm in up - state New York?

Its law is that of a double humility: «The double humility which comes to it from its relation to the divine that it discerns in history.

But the uniquely creative element in Christian experience is just the overflow of new life and power which come from the depths of that experience in which our human despair is met by the suffering love of God in all its majesty, humility, and holiness.

Going by the comments on this board, only the atheists are disturbed and spewing hatred in face of this genuine & exemplary act of humility, kindness and love from a true man of God.