Francois Fenelon Quotes

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

We don’t discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves.

So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Work at being a humble person.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

Humility is attentive patience.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

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 think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.