The meek man will attain a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.
Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other.
God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
You stop growing when you stop listening.
Humility means realizing that it's fun to give everything away, particularly the things that you are most attached to.
When you admire others, you become one with them and the world loves you.
Do not practise excessive humility.
There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.
Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.
Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good. He is especially afraid when we love Jesus very much. He runs away when we make the Sign of the Cross.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Love's humility is love's true pride.
Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.
Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
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