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• Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and… — Francis of Assisi
• Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy… — Rhoda Janzen
• I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a… — Teresa of Avila
• For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way… — Josemaria Escriva
• Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than… — Barbara Tuchman
• Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to… — Thucydides
• In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt,… — D. H. Lawrence
• Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is… — Saint Augustine
• In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else,… — Saint Ignatius

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