The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
Saint AugustineRead
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Interpretation
Success requires humility and a strong foundation.
This quote by Saint Augustine emphasizes the importance of humility as a foundational element for achieving great things. Before one can aspire to greatness, such as building a metaphorical tower to reach the clouds, one must first cultivate a humble beginning, recognizing that true elevation comes from acknowledging one's limitations and starting from a grounded place.
In practice
Use this quote during a motivational talk about the importance of hard work and humility in achieving success.
The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.
Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.
You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.
It is higher and nobler to be kind.
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