"Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of……" — Christopher Hitchens

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• Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself… — Mark the Evangelist
• Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness.… — John Owen
• But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from… — Stephen Mitchell
• Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape… — Ayn Rand
• It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to… — Aristotle
• The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille — Karl Marx
• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the… — Victor Hugo
• Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. — Dag Hammarskjold
• There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn… — Symeon the New Theologian
• ... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical… — James Randi
• Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It… — Peter Julian Eymard
• If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus,… — Richard Rohr

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