Modesty Quote by Richard J. Foster

“In emphasizing God's love over his holiness--his set-apartness as a sovereign, omniscient authority--we end up believing that his central concern is our individual happiness.”

— Leslie Leyland Fields

“Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“that is just why a vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work:”

— C.S. Lewis

“If we only had eyes to see and ears to hear and wits to understand, we would know that the Kingdom of God in…

— Frederick Buechner

“There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“The quintessential good and beauty in life is what each has to offer to others valuing the gesture ourselves into confluence with the Word…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“God, who is Light itself, lives in a pure and humble heart, and all sufferings and adversities serve but to reveal the soul’s holiness.”

— Maria Faustina Kowalska

“They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable,…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.

— William Shakespeare

“He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God. God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the…

— Henry Drummond

“We deem it opportune to remind our children of their duty to take an active part in public life and to contribute toward the…

— Pope John XXIII

“Now, according to the strength or weakness of his faith in his Savior, so is his joy and peace, so is his love for…

— John Bunyan