Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.

I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

Love make us a liar. . Jace Wayland/Herondale, City of Ashes

If there is no humility, love remains blocked.

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

In the beginning of the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Edward is more enamored of himself than he is of anybody else. He's a very fine rabbit; he's been constructed incredibly well, and he has a wardrobe of amazing clothing. He's arrogant, and he doesn't care whether Abilene loves him or not. As the journey progresses, as he gets passed from hand to hand, he learns what it means to love. He gets more and more bedraggled, and his clothing is lost; yet he becomes finer in soul and heart than he was at the beginning of the journey.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God.