“He who submits himself to God,” says St. Isaac, “is close to being able to submit all things to himself. To him who knows himself is given to know all things, for knowledge of self is the fullness of the knowledge of all things.”
If a man humbles himself before God, all creation humbles itself before him.
“True humility is born of knowledge, and true knowledge is the fruit of temptation”—that is, it comes through the battle with temptations.
St Justin Popovich