Humility Quotes - Page 16

• The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Faith, Men, Humanity

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• The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Thinking, Forget You

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• So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Brother

  "Obama: 'A Christian by Choice'" by Kristin Brown, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2010.

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• Practice humility and patience.

  Vincent de Paul

  Practice, Humility And Patience, Values

  Saint Vincent De Paul, Pierre Coste (1998). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Dec. 1657-June 1659”, New City Pr

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• Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Doe, Pay

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• Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.

  Laozi

  Heart, Compassion, Way

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• It is not humility to underrate yourself. Humility is to think of yourself as God thinks of you. It is to feel that if we have talents God has given them to us. And let it be seen that, like freight in a vessel, they tend to sink us low. The more we have, the lower we ought to lie.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Thinking, Talent

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1493, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ego, Crowds

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• If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Nature, Flower, Rose

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.24, ICS Publications

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• This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Way, Humiliation

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• On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspiration, Kids, Thrones

  Essais bk. 3, ch. 13 (1580)

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• A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Discovery, Self

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• The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Men, Church

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• I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

  Joan Baez

  Witty, Humble, Opinion

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• Being business minded requires you to always approach things with humility and respect.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Approach, Business Minded

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• Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Judging, Poorest

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.461

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• Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Humble, Pride, Soul

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• Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

  Thomas Merton

  Errors, Sincerity, Fidelity

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Daniel Dennett

  Yarn, Brain, Accuracy

  Daniel C. Dennett (2013). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.339, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Modesty is humility expressed in dress.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Dresses, Modesty

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• Humility does not mean to think yourself less, but to less think of yourself.

  Bhakti Tirtha Swami

  Humble, Mean, Thinking

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• In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

  Bill W.

  Inspirational, Recovery, Lessons

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• Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

  Philip II of Macedon

  Death, World, Earth

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• Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

  Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

  Self, Improvement, Distinction

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  Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Christianity, True Intelligence

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Ezekiel 1- 12 (Annotated Edition)”, p.84, Jazzybee Verlag

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