Humble Quotes - Page 24

• To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

  John Newton

  Mind, Doctrine, Embrace

  John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.245

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• Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God - He cares for me.'

  John Piper

  Heart, Thinking, Joy

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• The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship.

  John Piper

  Heart, School, Soul

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• The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom
  to receive the pleasant beams of the sun’s glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other
  flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Sweet, Spring

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1835). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.12

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• Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.

  Lu Xun

  Dream, Thinking, Blood

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• O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

  David Mallet

  Heaven, Enough, Ends

  Imitation of Horace.

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• What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.

  James Caan

  People, Important, Doe

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.

  Don Marquis

  Fashion, Brother, Passion

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.

  John Gay

  Pride, Men, Fleas

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.83

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• Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.

  Frank Murphy

  Philosophy, Rights, Land

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• I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Teaching, Acting, Students

  "HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Jeff Goldblum Talks Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s New Detective and More!". Interview with Sheldon Wiebe, eclipsemagazine.com. April, 29, 2009.

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• The way I was raised and the people that I grew up around for the most part were very humble people, and I appreciate all that they taught me, and their energy and their magnanimity help keep me grounded.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Appreciate, Energy

  "Lenny Kravitz: Living and Loving Every Moment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Artist, Roots

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  I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.

  Sam Houston

  Lists, Ends

  "Fictional character: Sam Houston". "The Alamo", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Giving, Envy

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• A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Military, People

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.

  Periander

  Should, Despise, Position

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• Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

  Ferran Adria

  Careers, Feet, Important

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• I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

  Jess Walter

  Teaching, Opportunity, Idols

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• The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.

  Roscoe Conkling

  People, Ambitious, Resilient

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• There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

  Park Chan-wook

  Listening, Periods, Instruments

  "On my radar: Park Chan-wook" by Corinne Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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• Some never get started on their destiny course because they cannot humble themselves to learn, grow, and change.

  Casey Treat

  Destiny, Grows, Courses

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• Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Reading, Men, Passing Away

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• Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

  Isabel Allende

  Wise, Men, Ignorant

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• Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.

  Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

  Beautiful, Boiler Room, Matter

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