HONOR

As the earth is receptive to the rain and the sunflower to the light of the sun, so Man is the vessel into which is poured both gifts and honors.

Honors, when the truth of receptivity is forgotten, tend to swell and in flat the ego.

It is one thing for a man to wear the purple and another thing for the purple to wear a man.

Every human being is like a sponge: some sponges reach a point of saturation very quickly - some humans reach a point where they can absorb no more honors; they get filled very quickly. From that point on, they drip the honor as the sponge drips the water.

The peacock is beautiful while you look at its feathers, but ugly when you look at its feet.

Honors generally have bad effects on character, unless they are tempered by humility in their possession and adversity as their precursor.

The lark that soars so high is the bird that builds its nest so low; the branches that bears the riches fruits are those which hang closest to the ground; the nightingale sings sweetly, but in the shade and when things are at rest.

That man wears honor best who knows in his own heart that he does not deserve it, and who , in the face of becoming more and more, makes himself less and less.

The wise man never vaunts his learning; the real saints are the hardest to recognize, the spurious saints wear placards. Humility is the condition of greatness.

The greatest preventative of honors going to one's head is to have them preceded by adversity, sorrow and tribulation.

The violin may not like the musician that pulls and tugs at its strings, but in the end it sees that it is all made for the greatest melody.

To gain value from such crosses, one must see that they come not from the hand of God, but from the Father Himself.

When dishonor as well as honor are seen as coming from the hand of God, then the human element becomes secondary. God can be thanked for His trials as well as His blessings.

(Unknown)