“Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.” ChristianSpiritualLordHumilityOrthodoxOrthodox ChristianSpiritual Knowledge Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Humility is my best friend, I've always valued it above all other spiritual qualities.” SpiritualQualityHumilityBuddhismMy Best Friend Author:Frederick Lenz
“Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.” ImportantSpiritualGrowthQualityHumilityBuddhismSpiritual GrowthSpiritual LifeLacking Author:Frederick Lenz
“When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.” KnowsShowsSpiritualWorstHumilityBuddhismEgoSuperiors Author:Frederick Lenz
“When there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness.” SpiritualHumilityBuddhismOneness Author:Frederick Lenz
“We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.” NeedsShouldSpiritualSpiritUnderstandingHumilityTaughtTruth IsApproachHumbleScriptureEach DayRecognizingIncompleteSpiritual Truth Author:Jerry Bridges
“We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. ... [T]o know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one's littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness and responsibility.” KnowsNeedsSpiritualCommunityResponsibilityHumilityMembersBenefitsProfoundDependentWildernessDependenceInterdependenceIndebtedness Author:Howard Zahniser
“Without humility, all spiritual progress stops.” SpiritualProgressHumilityBuddhismBuddhistEtiquetteSpiritual Progress Author:Frederick Lenz
“Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.” FirstsLastsSpiritualUnderstandingReligiousAtheismHumilityConsequencePositive AtheismToleranceQuestsDogmaImpotenceReligious ToleranceFirsts And Lasts Author:Sidney Hook
“though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.” DoeRealSoulFactsSpiritualBitsFailingHumilityEatingUpsetWormsShortcomingsAcknowledgement Author:Evelyn Underhill
“There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.” IfsMeanBookSpiritualFormSpiritualityLearningHumilityExpectationsGardenToolsSacredEmbraceTechniqueTheologyFancyChemicalsGardeningArsenalHybridFertilizerRelinquishingRelinquishing Control Author:Christopher McDowell
“Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.” MenInspirationalFirstsChristianSpiritualSufferingPassionReligiousSinCuttingHumilityLatterOrthodox Author:Maximus the Confessor
“A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.” HeartSpiritualPrayerHumilityHigherAskingHumbleAlms Book:The Godly Man's Picture Source: The Godly Man's Picture
“Pain is never permanent.” PainSpiritualSufferingHealingHumilityCatholicDivorcePermanentLost LoveBeing AloneSingleBeing SingleTime HealsLong SufferingPain Is TemporaryTime Heals All Wounds Author:Teresa of Avila
“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.” PhilosophyCharacterSpiritualPerfectMoralHumilityEssentialsHarderRewardsEdgesAwakeningSensitivityElegantHubrisEntiretyMoral PhilosophyPerplexedSchumacherPitch Perfect Author:Maria Popova