Humility Quotes - Page 39

• For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Charity, Obedience

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• Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

  Blaise Pascal

  Humble, Pride, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this enemy man gains mastery over himself; this wins for him mastery over the whole universe, because the wall standing between the self and the Almighty has been broken down. Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness are considered by the Sufi as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul as well as within that of another.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Crush, Wall, Fighting

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• Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Sobriety, Mind, Body

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• To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Water, Desert

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.112, HarperCollins UK

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• Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Oneself

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• Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to achieve peace of mind and supreme satisfaction. Right now we are hankering after many, many things, but nothing we get satisfies us. Spirituality tells us that satisfaction can be found only if we lead a good and divine life-a life of simplicity, purity and humility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Simplicity, Mind, Satisfaction

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• One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Humble, Inferiority, Modesty

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• Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Knowing, Sickness

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• Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Giving Up, Desire, Sin

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• I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

  Khalil Gibran

  Believe, Tired, Solitude

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• Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

  Philip Neri

  Humble, Detachment, Obedience

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.28, St Athanasius Press

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• Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.

  Philip Neri

  Pride, Giving, May

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.34, St Athanasius Press

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• Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

  Socrates

  Integrity, Vanity, Generosity

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• My inspiration is coming more and more from the way I feel and the gratitude I feel. The older you get the more humility you have.

  Louie Anderson

  Gratitude, Inspiration, Way

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• I'm being sincere and I'm being human. I'm making mistakes or I'm doing things correctly, but I'm being human regardless. I'm talking about my pain and my joy, and I'm not saying it with words but mainly with colors and shapes. That's what I tried to do with the utmost sincerity and humility of a child.

  Alex Abreu

  Children, Pain, Mistake

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Thinking, People

  "Jane Goodall on Bigfoot, Chimpanzees and Her education". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, blankonblank.org. 2002.

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• For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Portraits, Fragility, Shows

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• A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

  Ambrose

  Years, Giving, Parent

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• Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pride, Heaven, Hell

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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• Humility is always proof of intelligence

  Claude Vorilhon

  Proof

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• I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is the true infinity engine!

  Akiane Kramarik

  Children, Believe, Acceptance

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• Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Knowing, Battle, Innocence

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• The humility of wonder opens everything.

  Mark Nepo

  Wonder

  Mark Nepo (2015). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

  Suzy Kassem

  Men, Honorable Man, Three

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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