Humility Quotes - Page 14

• In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Growth

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• Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Self, Opposites, Exaltation

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• 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.

  James McCosh

  Heaven, Age, Earth

  James McCosh (2009). “First and Fundamental Truths”, p.170, Applewood Books

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• Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.

  David R. Hawkins

  Personality, Style, Energy

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• Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

  Charles Dickens

  Inspiration, Heart, Self

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.17059, Delphi Classics

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• Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Would Be, World, Proud

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• Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

  Alexander MacLaren

  Waiting, Soul, Alive

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• 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.

  James McCosh

  Christian, Past, Views

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Dictionary by Gilbert, Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 329, 1895.

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• Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Admire, Horrible

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• Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away in the distant country of a Father's home, with the cross borne silently and self-sacrificingly in the heart of hearts.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Country, Father, Real

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.242

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• Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

  Robin Morgan

  Peace, Knowledge, Information Is Power

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.121, Open Road Media

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

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Portraits, Humility And Modesty, Surround

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• I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

  William Shakespeare

  Strings

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1372

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• Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

  Francois Guizot

  Heart, Light, Shining

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• Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

  William Penn

  Humble, Pride, Men

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• In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Jesus

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.127, Applewood Books

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• We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

  Brother Lawrence

  Greatness, Littles, Little Things

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.12, Booklassic

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• Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

  Paulo Freire

  Dialogue

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.

  John Climacus

  Pride, Devil

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• The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Philosophical

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say humility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same - humility.

  Antony C. Sutton

  Austin, Answers, Way

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• In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.

  Erwin McManus

  Hypocrite, Transition

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2013). “An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind”, p.267, David C Cook

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• Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God.

  Walter Russell

  Inspiration, Achievement, Secret

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• It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions and they find out how poor they really are only after they die.

  John Climacus

  Passion, Thinking, Self

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.210, Paulist Press

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