Tag: humility
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December 31, 2009 06:13 PM EST --
THE VIRTUE OF HUMILITY
Mary Cook, M.A., R.A.S.
Humility is not self-deprecation, impoverishment, shame or humiliation. It is not codependence, inferiority or passivity. . . .
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April 20, 2007 08:11 PM EDT --
I have always admired the honesty and humility in this quote:
"Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them (christian ideals) out. . . .
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November 26, 2006 07:08 PM EST --
Fine root vegetables
among them humility
all for Thanksgiving
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February 23, 2007 11:17 AM EST --
"Take this cup away from me Father,"
Thrice he'd cried with moving anguish,
Pleas failed, budging portals of heaven,
In agony, heartbroken he'd wept.
His cup was brimming with bitterness, . . .
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April 19, 2007 08:32 AM EDT --
I cannot take credit for this, as it arrived in my e-mail this morning, but was so funny I thought I'd share with my Gather friends.
JUST A FUNNY TO START THE DAY.
A big shot attorney had . . .
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November 15, 2006 08:52 PM EST --
There he sits alone in a box. Do you see him? Everyday he watches you as you pass him by and don't even realize he's there. He was there when you parked your car to buy some milk at . . .
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November 06, 2009 09:06 AM EST --
For those who know me, this will come as a bit of a surprise. After all, I have said that I do my duty for God and Country. In the course of time, however, I have become aware that humility . . .
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March 30, 2007 01:47 PM EDT --
The creamy colored coffee from the porcelain cup had added little to her morning. As dainty as it was, the cup seemed to be far too delicate for the duty of serving. She with the dainty fingers, . . .
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May 14, 2007 10:47 AM EDT --
I heard a story the other day of how Mahatma Ghandi picked up a toilet brush and started into scrubbing a bowl after hearing his wife say that she wouldn't do it because it was beneath her caste.
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January 13, 2008 10:42 AM EST --
This is one way to stop people from critcizing you. If you buy the newspaper that they work for, that would tend to shut them up. Either they will tone it down to keep their job, or they might quit and . . .
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April 03, 2008 10:21 AM EDT --
Here is a short haiku for your cynical pleasure on this lovely April day!
Lawn
one blade amidst green
rises high above others—
False Prophet! blades slice.
I wrote this . . .
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November 09, 2008 06:00 AM EST --
Typhoon-like winds swirling and whirling all around, the roars of thunder pounding inside my twelve year-old head. The piercing spears of blue - jagged and frightening - striking near the periphery of . . .
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February 27, 2009 09:41 AM EST --
Most people on Gather know me as a dragon. I'm not a dragon in real life of course. I'm a skinny, balding, bearded, 52 year old librarian. I don't even have serious delusions . . .
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March 05, 2007 05:22 PM EST --
Someday I'll write, nonchalant,
Songs for posterity,
With indelible inks soaking the quill,
Precursor of destiny.
Legends with gold of sunbeams,
Verse fringed with dazzling light,
Intensely brilliant . . .
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March 13, 2007 05:05 AM EDT --
Scorched by the gilded sun
Stealing stars
Drunk on golden moonshine
I stumble onto dawn’s moisture
Bare feet drenched with dew
A sobering salve
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January 03, 2008 05:23 PM EST --
Sometimes, I think (or attempt to think) entirely too much. I remember from class Aristotle's Golden Mean, from which it is taught that the ethical life is lived by attempting to reach a median . . .
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December 25, 2008 07:41 AM EST --
It's about 6 a.m. Christmas morning. The streets are still quiet. My son is asleep. My daughter stayed at my brother's last night. The cat and guinea pigs are quiet at the moment as well. I was . . .
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January 02, 2007 12:02 AM EST --
A newly discovered chapter in the Book of Genesis has provided the answer to 'Where do pets come from?'
Adam said, 'Lord, when I was in the garden, you walked with me every day. Now I do not . . .
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February 22, 2009 10:21 PM EST --
Today’s scripture is II Corinthians 8:9 (KJ)
9 - For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you, through His poverty, might become . . .
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May 13, 2007 05:54 AM EDT --
Where there is humility and self-respect, it results in selfless
service. When there is a combination of humility and self-respect one
becomes a giver. Humility makes us give respect to others and . . .
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