Quotes about humility
humility grace amiable
The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility. Samuel Richardson
humility shining grace
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
humility height portal
Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. Rudolf Steiner
humility pride modesty
Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound. W. S. Gilbert
humility vanity parent
True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd. William Cowper
humility reflection order
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection. Ursula K. Le Guin
humility grace veils
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces. William Gurnall
humility pride maturity
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness. William Arthur Ward
humility healing pride
Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open. Washington Allston
humility humble pride
So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves. Tim Tebow
humility acceptance reality
The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations. Thomas Keating
humility self forgetfulness
Humility is the forgetfulness of self.
humility men joy
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces. Thomas Brooks
humility nurse grace
Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.
humility brain matter
Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
humility doe intimacy
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God. Monica Baldwin
humility america traits
Humility is not a trait I often associate with America. Mira Nair
humility heart pride
At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement. Pearl S. Buck
humility fighting winning
There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win. Peter V. Brett
humility pride heaven
Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell. Peter Kreeft
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Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
humility self catholic
Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.
humility humble mirrors
You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors! Phyllis Diller
humility people preparation
I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations. Ted Allen
humility pride haughtiness
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. Ralph Waldo Emerson
humility heaven bears
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
humility important ive-learned
Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility. Shania Twain
humility self miracle
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible. Sheldon Whitehouse
humility pride numbers
Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.
humility understanding
It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility. Val Kilmer
humility men thinking
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility. Vaclav Havel
humility compassion different
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.
humility men world
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.