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  • True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

    Love   Humility   Moments  
  • Love's humility is love's true pride.

    Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.75
  • Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by an abandonment that shall produce true humility.

  • True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

    Kris Vallotton, Bill Johnson (2017). “The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God”, p.98, Destiny Image Publishers
  • True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Dictionary by Gilbert, Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 329, 1895.
  • We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true".

  • True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

  • True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

    Humility   Self   Spirit  
    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.605, Ravenio Books
  • No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.

    Heart   Humility   Soul  
    John Cassian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of John Cassian (Annotated Edition)”, p.220, Jazzybee Verlag
  • True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

  • Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

    Sweet   Love Is   Romance  
  • Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.

  • Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

    Life   Success   Humble  
    "Library of Universal History". Book by Israel Smith Clare, p. 539, 1899.
  • Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

  • true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.61, Random House
  • That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven of stars.

    Stars   Humility   Lakes  
  • It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

    Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.181, New Directions Publishing
  • O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

    Mother   Humility   Son  
    Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”
  • God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.

    John Keble, G. M., George MOBERLY (Bishop of Salisbury.) (1869). “Miscellaneous poems ... Second edition. [The preface signed: G. M., i.e. George Moberly.]”, p.205
  • Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

  • Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

    Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.134, Zondervan
  • The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can.

    Dream   Mean   Humility  
    Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub
  • True humility means giving joy to others.

    Mean   Humility   Giving  
    Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
  • What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours

    Life   Humility   Men  
  • True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.

    Humble   Humility   Deeds  
    "'I feel so humble' - the common cry of heroes and villains" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2013.
  • True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

    Humble   Humility   Doe  
  • In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

    Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.47, Penguin
  • Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  • When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.

  • True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

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