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.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Any top-level athlete, it’s always the same. There’s always that hint of arrogance there… It’s hard to be humble when you’re the best.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

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

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

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

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

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.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

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.

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

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I’m no genius.

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

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

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

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

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

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

Humble people ask for help.

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

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.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

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

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‚star‘ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.