Humility Quotes - Page 42

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.

Humility is the light of the understanding.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.

True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

After all, to get the whole universe totally wrong in the face of clear evidence for over 75 years merits monumental embarrassment and should induce a modicum of humility.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word.

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

Then God came to the woman and said to her, "Why did you not keep the commandment?" as if He wanted to say, "At least you, say forgive me, so as to humble your soul and to receive mercy." Again, there was no request for forgiveness. She also answered, "The serpent deceived me," as if she wanted to say, "If the serpent sinned, where is my mistake?"

Pride is the switch that turns off priesthood power. Humility is a switch that turns it on . . . . Some suppose that humility is about beating ourselves up. Humility does not mean convincing ourselves that we are worthless, meaningless, or of little value. Nor does it mean denying or withholding the talents God has given us. We don't discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves. It comes as we go about our work with an attitude of serving God and our fellowman.

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.