Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Humility
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One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
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In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.
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Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
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Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.
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I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.
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