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In Montana’s 1949 Mann Gulch fire, made famous in Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire, smokejumpers parachuted in expecting to face a “ten o’clock fire,” meaning they would have it contained by 10 a.m. the next morning. Until the fire
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“As a Coptic priest in New York put it, “[H]umility is a mediator. It will always be the shortest distance between you and another person.”
― Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
― Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
“Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, 'By jove! I'm being humble!', and almost immediately pride—pride at his own humility—will appear. If he awakes to the danger and tries to smother this new form of pride, make him proud of his attempt—and so on, through as many stages a you please. But don't try this too long, for fear you may awake his sense of humour and proportion, in which case he will merely laugh at you and go to bed.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“- You know, dull tools are much more dangerous than sharp ones.
- I paused to admire his metaphor, but he continued.”
― James
- I paused to admire his metaphor, but he continued.”
― James
“Touch a limit of your understanding and it falls away, to reveal mystery upon mystery.”
― The Givenness of Things: Essays
― The Givenness of Things: Essays
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