If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Be the chief but never the lord.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

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.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn’t care much for themselves, God doesn’t bless them. I didn’t want to be pope.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

My grandpa was a preacher.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

We are so very ‚umble.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.