Giles of Assisi quotes

Giles of Assisi quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.”
-- Giles of Assisi

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“Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.”
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
“More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.”
“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

Source : Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
“Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite”
“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.”
“Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life â€“ and maybe even please a few strangers.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.”
“Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.”

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