Quotes About Humility

Her dad turned to me. "You. Follow Me." "Woof," I said.

Just be prepared," she said. "When you do come back to live with me, you are SO GROUNDED for calling me the chicken that crossed the road.

Nisam se nimalo sramio svojih poslova jer shva?am ono što o?ito gotovo nitko drugi ne razumije: da je vrlo mala razlika izme?u posla u visokoj zelenoj staklenoj zgradi na Aveniji Park i skupljanja sme?a u parku, tako mala da jedva da i postoji osim u ljudskoj mašti. Zapravo, možda je uop?e i nema.

I have great respect for writers who are humble, whose language allows the reader to see the story but doesn't get in the way. Language is a window, and if the window is clean, you shouldn't be aware you're looking through glass.

Jesus didn't, and we shouldn't. He doesn't need us to stick up for him; he needs us to represent him, to be like him, to look like him and to talk like him, to be with people that he would be with, and to take the side of the "ignorant" instead of those in the "know."[91]

In all our efforts, if we are not about people, our labors aren't really about Jesus but about us.

And as it turns out, as soon as we are willing to be the last, we actually become first. When we admit we are least, we feel like the greatest. And when we lose our lives, we find it all . . . all the love, all the life, all the thrill, all the fulfillment.

There was a pause, then his lips stretched into a smile. "You're right." Hell froze over. Pigs were flying. "Come again?" "You're right. I should have checked in at some point. I'm sorry." The world was flat. I didn't know what to say. According to Daemon, he was right about 99 percent of the time. Wow.

Everyone is a little wrong sometimes, Heiress.

I'm not a vain person, but I am human...

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

The weaknesses, failures, and sins of our family are the places where we learn that we need grace too. It is there, in those dark mercies, that God teaches us to be humbly dependent. It is there that He draws near to us and sweetly reveals His grace. Paul's suffering teaches us to reinterpret our thorn. Instead of seeing it as a curse, we are to see it as the very thing that keeps us pinned close to the Lord.

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy...It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

Very well, sir. A woman's opinion, however humble she may be, is always worth listening to, if she's got any sense...If you put yourself in my hands, I shall certainly make a decent man of you.

Il y avait des hommes si ambitieux qu'ils auraient torché les chefs, pour les entendre seulement dire merci.

Le mépris de la science lui venait ; il voulait rester ignorant, afin de garder l'humilité de sa foi.

Like certain devotees, who fancy they will deceive the Almighty, and secure pardon by praying with their lips, and assuming the humble attitude of penitence, Thérèse displayed humility, striking her chest, finding words of repentance, without having anything at the bottom of her heart save fear and cowardice.

The inspector, though well educated, had been raised in very modest circumstances and therefore treated his staff as human beings and not instruments put on this earth to do his bidding.

However , it's over, and I'll take no revenge on his folly – I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the meanest thing alive slap me on the cheek, I'd not only turn the other, but I'd ask pardon for provoking it – and, as proof, I'll go make my peace with Edgar instantly – Good night – I'm an angel!

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Depois de teres arrasado o meu palácio, não me construas uma choupana e penses que estás a ser muito caridosa por isso.

Los soberbios dan pábulo a las propias penas.

Depois de deitar por terra o meu palácio, não erga uma cabana só para admirar a sua própria benevolência ao me oferecer abrigo.