Humility Quotes - Page 26

One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that in a public meeting the Prophet Joseph, possibly as a test, sternly rebuked Brigham Young for something he had done or something he was supposed to have done but hadn't - the detail is unclear. When Joseph finished the rebuke, everyone in the room waited for Brigham Young's response. This powerful man, later known as the Lion of the Lord, in a voice everyone could tell was sincere, said simply and humbly, "Joseph, what do you want me to do?"

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.

Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.

Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall. And you have to love to read books, all kinds of books, good books. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are just letting stuff seep in.

Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

I maintain that the biggest challenge in the new millennium could be a change of habit. We could change from a dominating commodity culture into one of true exchange in which we learn from each other in humility and respect. I do think it's possible. But it's up to us.

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.

Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart.

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.