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“Humility is what we want other people to have.”

People Want Humility

Author:Mariah Nelson

“The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.”

“The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.”

Firsts Christ Steps Humility Obedience Cherish First Steps

Author:Benedict of Nursia

“The first time I was privileged to meet president Mandela was during his visit to Malawi... shortly after he was released from prison. I was amazed by his humility and his great sense of leadership... Mandela's character has shaped my life.”

Firsts Character President Humility First Time Prison Amazed Privileged Malawi Mandela S

Author:Joyce Banda

“Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it; more grace to correct it.”

Has Beens Grace Humility Errors Acknowledge Ashamed

Book:Discourses on several important subjects. To which are added, 8 sermons preached at the lady Moyer's lecture, in the cathedral church of st. Paul, London

Source: Discourses on several important subjects. To which are added, 8 sermons preached at the lady Moyer's lecture, in the cathedral church of st. Paul, London

“The sacred gift of prayer is in the right hand of our Savior, and according to the measure that you empty yourself of yourself, that is of love of your senses and of your own will, and make progress in rooting yourself in holy humility, to that extent the Lord will speak to your heart.”

Heart Hands Speak Prayer Lord Progress Humility Holy Empty Sacred Senses Savior

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.”

Prayer Humility Pride Dependent

Book:Power Through Prayer

Source: Power Through Prayer

“Humility is the worst form of conceit.”

Form Worst Humility Conceit

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents' generation, a little bit more than now.”

Littles Play Bits Parent Kindness Generations Humility Little Bit Evidence Exciting Spite Liberating Insisting

Author:Brendan Gleeson

“Exercise humility and restraint.”

Humility Exercise Restraint

Author:Warren Buffett

“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.”

“There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.”

Men Humility Masters Lessons Harder Following Footsteps Meekness Rare Things

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Humility is self-forgetfulness.”

Self Humility Forgetfulness Self Forgetfulness

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.”

Thinking Men Humility Ought Oneself

Book:Gleanings Among The Sheaves

Source: Gleanings Among The Sheaves

“I believe that God wants to put His hand upon us so that we may reach ideal definitions of humility, of human helplessness, of human insufficiency, until we will rest no more upon human plans, but have God's thoughts, God's voice, and the Holy Spirit to speak to us.”

Want Believe Humans May Hands Spirit Speak I Believe Voice Plans Humility Holy Ideals Definitions Holy Spirit Helplessness Insufficiency

Book:Smith Wigglesworth Devotional

Source: Smith Wigglesworth Devotional

“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.”

Christian Order Causes Church Humility Pride Breach Christian Church Dissension

Book:The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation

Source: The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation

“Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.”

Ifs Men Mind Self Christ Prayer Humility Praying Quitting Surrender Pity Godly Godly Man

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“...There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again.”

Needs May Made Order Teaching Cry Humility Scripture Knees Crushed Familiarity

Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.”

Grows Humility Strange Flower Winter Storm Weather Affliction Winter Weather

Book:Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished

Source: Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished

“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.”

Humility Higher Foundation Structure Deeper Fabric Constructs Lofty Christian Humility

Author:Saint Augustine

“God will bless us if we walk in humility.”

Ifs Walks Humility Gods Will Bless

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“The invincible weapon against all our enemies is humility.”

Enemy Humility Weapons Invincible

Author:Theophan the Recluse

“We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.”

May Opportunity Virtue Grace Humility Ought Exercise Colour Daily Life Modesty Gentleness Exalted Temperance Mould Magnificence Magnanimity

Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.”

Effort Virtue Humility Amount

Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne

“If humility is always desirable, generous humility is still more so.”

Ifs Stills Humility Generous Desirable

Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne

“By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.”

Made Earth Enemy Humility New Earth

Author:Meister Eckhart

“It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone.”

Ifs Knows Men Ends Cities Darkness Journey Humility Ought Perfection Salvation Who You Are Work Out Where You Are Another Man Sanctity

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.”

Ifs Sometimes Humility Pride Covered Idleness Turbulence

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

“I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.”

Thinking Persons Feelings Humility Structure Magnificent Thinking Person

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.”

“God opposes the proud. The way you get up front is do really good work in the back. Humility is a by product of spending time with Jesus - it is not a reflection of yourself”

Way Jesus Fronts Humility Products Proud Reflection Spending Get Up Good Work Spending Time Reflection Of Yourself

Author:Bradley Cooper

“Humility is the forgetfulness of self.”

Self Humility Forgetfulness

Book:Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel

Source: Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel

“It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.”

Humility Argument Dignity Importance

Author:Thomas Huxley

“What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.”

Needs Belief Humility Fundamentals

Author:Clayton Christensen

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”

Ends Truth Fate Humility Superstitions Heresy

Author:Thomas Huxley

“The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.”

Men Fall Differences Humility Errors Notes Inevitable Acknowledge Readiness Lapses

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.”

Knows Poverty Tree Humility Fruit

Author:Farid al-Din Attar

“I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership.”

Firsts Three Economy Humility Mercy Thirds Treasure Generosity Daring Tao Te Ching Leadership

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“God made us and God is able to empower us to do whatever he calls us to do. Denying that we can accomplish God's work is not humility; it is the worst kind of pride.”

Kind Made Able Worst Humility Pride Accomplish Empowering God Is Able

Book:Heirs of the King: Living the Beatitudes

Source: Heirs of the King: Living the Beatitudes

“Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.”

Thinking World Way Mean Levels Accepting Class Humility Keys Skills Ego Setting Settings My Way Multiple Way Of Thinking Therapists Superb World Class Technical Skills

Author:David D. Burns

“It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting that we have nothing which we have not received, that grace is a gift, an undeserved favor. We can actually be filled with pride at the eloquence and brilliance of our sermon on humility.”

Spiritual Forget Grace Humility Pride Proud Filled Favors Be Proud Sermons Brilliance Eloquence Spiritual Gifts

Book:Spiritual Maturity: Principles of Spiritual Growth for Every Believer

Source: Spiritual Maturity: Principles of Spiritual Growth for Every Believer

“So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.”

Needs Humans Human Beings Position Humility Planets Intense Checks Outrage

Author:Ani DiFranco

“When you have the humility to listen to the Bible it does more than enlighten us, it transforms us.”

Doe Humility Enlightening

Author:Mario Daniel Vega

“We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.”

World Able Ability Doubt Mystery Conditions Creation Humility Species Acknowledge Arrogance Awe Abandon Reverence Majesty

Book:The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Source: The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

“Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.”

Firsts Christianity Humility Thirds

Author:Saint Augustine

“Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?”

Jesus Christ Humility Pride Jesus Christ

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.”

“Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.”

Men Mind Moments Spirit Poor Humility Pride Reflection Humble Be Humble Pride And Humility Poor In Spirit

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?”

Pain Father Humility Our Father

Author:Elisabeth Elliot