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• It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

  Gillian Flynn

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.207, Broadway Books

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• I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don't much like being dependent. We don't enjoy admitting how desperately we long for someone's kindness and involvement. It's so humbling.

  Larry Crabb

  Kindness, Long, Feelings

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• Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of much exploration and examination because it is intrinsically beautiful, nothing more to say. Why play the violin? Because it is beautiful! Why engage in math? Because it too is beautiful!

  James Tanton

  Beautiful, Education, Art

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• Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

  Ann Voskamp

  Children, Motherhood, Soul

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• Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch." What I find interesting is the simple thought that the Christians didn't name themselves. But rather, they were called (or named) "Christians" by those watching their lives. I wonder if it would be the same today. Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.

  Chris Tomlin

  Christian, Simple, Names

  FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Aug 02, 2016

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• And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

  Wendell Berry

  Spiritual, Home, Journey

  "Seeking a Spiritual Home" by Katherine Towler, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Proud, Helping

  "Five things Facebook did this week" By Dorrine Mendoza, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2012.

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• The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

  Paul Johnson

  Powerful, Earth Day, Arrogance

  Paul Johnson (1980). “The Things that are Not Caesar's”

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• Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

  Oswald Chambers

  Humble, Doors, Thieves

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• If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.

  John Stott

  Greatness, Worship, Speak

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• I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for thats been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.

  Geoff Stults

  Thinking, Humbling Experiences, Athletics

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• I was very excited to meet Amanda Seyfried. She is one of the most humbling human beings you will ever meet. She deserves success.

  Cory Hardrict

  Excited, Amanda, Humans

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• Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first
  lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the
  crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash
  equilibrium.

  Scott Aaronson

  Firsts, Humbling Experiences, Equilibrium

  "Malthusianisms". www.scottaaronson.com. August 15, 2009.

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• If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Powerful, House, Needs

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “The Last American Man”, p.13, A&C Black

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• I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Cycling, Rocks

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