Humility Quotes - Page 36

• Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

  William Temple

  Freedom, Mean, Thinking About You

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• Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.

  John Wesley

  Be Patient, Proof, Increase

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous”, p.526

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• It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Men, Littles, Modesty

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• In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

  Bill Johnson

  Pride, Thinking, Talking

  Bill Johnson (2005). “When Heaven Invades Earth”, p.147, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Let every creature have your love. Love, with its fruits of meekness, patience, and humility, is all that we can wish for ourselves and our fellow creatures. For this is to live in God, united with him, both for time and eternity. To desire to communicate good to everyone, in the degree that we can and to which each person is capable of receiving from us, is a divine temper, for thus God stands unchangeably disposed towards the whole creation.

  William Law

  Love, Desire, Wish

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• Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Pride, Order

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1839). “The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation”, p.610

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• Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

  Kenneth Clark

  Pride, Destroyed, Insistence

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• To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

  Kathleen Norris

  Exercise, Self, Desire

  Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.25, Penguin

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• It is good to renew ourselves, from time to time, by closely examining the state of our souls, as if we had never done it before; for nothing tends more to the full assurance of faith, than to keep ourselves by this means in humility, and the exercise of all good works.

  John Wesley

  Mean, Exercise, Soul

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: A plain account of Christian perfection. The appeals to men of reason and religion. Principles of the Methodists, &c”, p.62

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• We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Views, Essentials, Christianity

  Jonathan Edwards, James Macintosh Houston (2004). “Faith Beyond Feelings: Discerning the Heart of True Spirituality”, p.153, David C Cook

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• One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

  John Piper

  Christian, Appreciate, Way

  John Piper (2013). “Alive To Wonder: Celebrating The Influence Of C.S. Lewis”, p.4, Whitaker House

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• Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards, George S. Claghorn, Perry Miller, John Edwin Smith, Norman Pettit (1998). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Letters and personal writings”

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• Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

  Richard Cecil

  Dust, Way, Faces

  Richard Cecil (1825). “The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character”, p.438

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• It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Arrogance, Important

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• Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

  David Brooks

  Distance, Thinking About You, Self

  "Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 14, 2015.

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• I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Movie, Careers, Giving

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• I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.

  Kirk Douglas

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens.

  Mark Hart

  Prayer, Doubt, Watches

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.24, Franciscan Media

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• The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Important, Three, Virtue

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• The true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.

  Robert Orben

  Grace, Crow, Tests

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• Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

  Jack W. Hayford

  Character, Men, Accountability

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• If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Effort, Doe

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• I think we too are the people who, on the one hand, want to listen to Jesus, but on the other hand, at times, like to find a stick to beat others with, to condemn others. And Jesus has this message for us: mercy. I think - and I say it with humility - that this is the Lord's most powerful message: mercy.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Powerful, Thinking

  Holy Mass In The Parish of St. Anna in the Vatican, w2.vatican.va. March 17, 2013.

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• Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility, for awakening to the greatest rewards of living . . . The Road to Character is an essential read in its entirety-Anne Lamott with a harder edge of moral philosophy, Seneca with a softer edge of spiritual sensitivity, E. F. Schumacher for perplexed moderns.

  Maria Popova

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Character

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• You need humility to say 'I might be wrong.'

  Seth Klarman

  Needs, Might

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