St. Tikhon of Voronezh

“God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.” 

Question for Meditation: How do you receive God?

’Ubadah ibn as-Samit

“If you want, I will tell you what the highest knowledge is, which raises people in rank: it is humility.” 

Question for Meditation: How is it possible that humility raises people in rank?

Arthur Ashe

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” 

Question for Meditation: What is your image of a hero? 

Eckhart Tolle

“The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.”

Question for Meditation: What small things can you honor right now? How can you do this?

Pope Benedict XVI

“Peace aims at the overcoming of boundaries and at the renewal of the earth through the peace that comes from God. The earth ultimately belongs to the meek, to the peaceful, the Lord tells us. It is meant to become the ‘land of the king of peace.’”

Question for Meditation: What do you think the “land of the king of peace” would look like?

Elder Herman of Mt. Athos

“Humility is the only thing we need; one can still fall having virtues other than humility – but with humility one does not fall.” 

Question for Meditation: How do you exercise humility?

Henry David Thoreau

“The universe is wider than our views of it.”

Question for Meditation: Take some time today to learn about how someone else views the universe.

St. Elizabeth of Hungary

“How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!”

Question for Meditation: What kind of crowns do you wear?

Miyamoto Musashi

“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”

Question for Meditation: How can you spend your thoughts on the world today?

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows.”

Question for Meditation: Can you trust that power, that “creative force in this universe”?