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• It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head and humble prayer, yet it silently adores.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Prayer, Real

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “Daily Help Devotional”, p.52, Whitaker House

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• The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be. You may feel that there is nothing special or superior about you or your ability. ... The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself. This is because God is the ultimate source of power.

  James E. Faust

  Miracle, Faithful, Special

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• Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Loss

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• The more holy, the more humble.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Holy

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• All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

  J. C. Ryle

  Humility, People, Doctrine

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• Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

  George Whitefield

  Thinking, Littles, Praying

  John Gillies, George Whitefield (1839). “Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield”, p.61

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• That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

  D. A. Carson

  Doe, Ought, Consistently

  D. A. Carson (2006). “How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil”, p.217, Baker Academic

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• Let your work speak for you.Stay humble.And just DO the work.

  Ledisi

  Speak, Stay Humble

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• Through courtesy you will take a humble attitude toward your opponent in training & be grateful to him.

  Shigeru Egami

  Art, Attitude, Grateful

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• You should always say your prayers with tireless diligence, as the Apostle directs, saying: 'Continue in prayer and watch in the same' (Col. 4:2). For humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Prayer, Persistence

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• We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the prophets, who looked on them only as sweet-voiced singers, and nothing more; they did not wish to fulfill their commands, they even despised, persecuted, beat and killed them; lest we should be like those, by whom 'no prophet is accepted in his own country' (Lk. 4:24).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Country, Sweet

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• Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the importunity of the widow inclined a wicked and unjust judge to grant her petition (cf. Lk. 18:1 ff.). The Lord gave this parable for a special purpose ? to teach us not to faint, but to pray patiently. If an unjust judge was persuaded to grant the petition of the widow, how can God fail to incline His ear to our prayers, if we persist in imploring Him since He is the essence of lovingkindness?

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Prayer, Persistence

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• Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation and unimpeachable hope. This hope is a foretaste of future blessings, of which the soul even now receives direct experience, and so it comes to know in part the surpassing richness of God's bounty, in accordance with the Psalmist's words, 'Taste and know that the Lord is bountiful' (Ps. 34:8). For He is the jubilation of the righteous, the joy of the upright, the gladness of the humble, and the solace of those who grieve because of Him.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Sick, Touching

  Pope Francis' address to The Participants in The Plenary Assembly of The International Union of Superiors General, w2.vatican.va. May 8, 2013.

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• "Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love and questions us on the one truly essential issue, a premiss and condition for feeding his sheep, his lambs, his Church. May every ministry be based on this intimacy with the Lord; living from him is the measure of our ecclesial service which is expressed in the readiness to obey, to humble ourselves, as we heard in the Letter to the Philippians, and for the total gift of self.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Sheep, Self

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• The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Journey, Purification

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• Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Stars, Men, Soul

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of themselves - of God, in His greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority; of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.

  John Owen

  Mean, Greatness, Men

  John Owen (1774). “Nature, Power, Deceit and Prevalency of Indwelling Sin in Believers ...”, p.86

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• When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Hands, Charity, Should

  Hamza Yusuf (2004). “Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms, and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart : Translation and Commentary of Imam Mawlud's Matharat Al-Qulub”, Starlatch Press

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• When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

  John Lennon

  Albums, Records, Hours

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.

  Mark Viduka

  Dad, Thinking, Too Much

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

  Chinua Achebe

  Spirit, Forget, Should

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• To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

  James Joyce

  Teacher, Life Is, Be Humble

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no substitute for hardwork. Always be humble and hungry.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Inspire, Hungry

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• Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is a humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the space which separates the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Beautiful, Humor, Space

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