It is just about time for my yearly lesson in humility, and I am beginning to get nervous. Each academic year, at some point, I am forced to confront either my own humanity, or that of one of my ...

An African proverb teaches a vital lesson about humility. It states a bird on an anthill does not realize it is still on the ...

St. Augustine wrote that there were two kinds of love in the world: amor sui ad contemptum Dei et amor Dei ad contemptum sui — “love of self to the contempt of God and love of God to the contempt of ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — I stood in line with my husband at the pharmacy in the subway level of Mayo Clinic. It was Tuesday, which means we survived a week of worry and wondering if our insurance was going ...

“The chances are good you won’t last here your entire life.” These words were the first ones spoken to us eight novices by the archabbot on our first day inside the cloister. “And even if you do make ...

I worked in retail at the mall in college. I vividly remember being responsible for reorganizing the wall of denim at Express — which at the time felt as tall as the Sistine Chapel. This was the ...

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Quotes from the Peloponnesian War to the War in Iraq.

In his book, “Hurdle-isms: Wit and Wisdom from a Lifetime in Baseball,” former Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle details 25 phrases he has used over the years — in other words, Hurdle-isms. He ...