“Against Hume, Kant has found a more proper ground for humility: “True humility follows unavoidably from our sincere and exact comparison of ourselves with the moral law” . The proper way to come to terms with our limits is not to compare ourselves with others but to hold ourselves accountable to those rational moral standards we know to be most properly our own.”
“The humble man feels no jealousy or envy. He can praise God when others are preferred and blessed before him. He can bear to hear others praised and himself forgotten, because in God's presence he has learned to say with Paul 'I be nothing' (2 Corinthians 12:11). He has received the spirit of Jesus, who did not please Himself and did not seek His own honor, as the spirit of his life.”
Source: Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness – Classic Devotional Meditations on the Character of Christ
“When the mind is not spoilt, the speech is not spoilt, the conduct is not spoilt, that is absolute humility [param vinaya].”
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“Like melting ice, melt within to purify yourself and to gain the power of purity and humility.”
“It is better to be a Number Two in a working system, than be a Number One yet lack capacity to make the system work.”
“You may reach the tree top,and seem to touch the sky , but know that the tree your resting on, is grounded and rooted in the soil ,deep in the earth.”
“Lord, I pray that of Your great goodness You would make known to me, and take from my heart, every kind and form and degree of pride, whether it be from evil spirits, or my own corrupt nature; and that You would awaken in me the deepest depth and truth of the humility that can make me capable of Your light and Holy Spirit.”
Source: Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness – Classic Devotional Meditations on the Character of Christ
“Only small men are incapable of seeing something greater than themselves”
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“Our humility [vinaya] should be such that offensive beings [aparadhak jiv], become non-offensive [un-apradhak].”
Source: Fault is of the Sufferer
“To show humility [vinaya] towards disrespect [avinaya] is strong humility [gaadha vinaya). To maintain humility even when a disrespectful person slaps you; that is called absolute strongest humility [param avgaadha vinaya].”
Source: The Science Of Karma