"There are times when I, without willing it,……" — Symeon the New Theologian
"There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from it because of the limitations of human nature and find safety in abasement. I know many things that are unknown to most men, yet I am more ignorant than all others. I rejoice because Christ, 'whom I have believed' (II Tim. 1:12), has bestowed on me an eternal and unshakable kingdom, yet I constantly weep as one who is unworthy of that which is above, and I cease not."
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26 Quotes by Symeon the New Theologian
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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…
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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape…
— Ayn Rand
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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to…
— Aristotle
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The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
— Karl Marx
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Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.
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