Quotes About Humility

So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his works are as naught: When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.

So high is my Lord's palace, my heart trembles to mount its stairs: yet I must not be shy, if I would enjoy His love.

Grace is always there. It is the Life that flows from the Source of Life. What we need to learn is to receive it and to become aware that grace is flowing from Life all the time. This Life is within us. All the qualities we might need are available if we can form the right connection. The three unlocking keys to the Source of Life are humility, gratitude, and love. When these qualities begin to prevail in our inner life we become receptive to grace. (S. 144)

Let the Jesus of your Spirit ride the donkey; Don't make your Jesus carry the donkey. Rumi, Mathnawi II: 1853-5

Our first murshid (spiritual guide), Suleyman Dede, never claimed to do anything himself. When Suleyman Dede visited the United States, he said, "God brought me to this country, and He has taken me to all these different places, and He has arranged for these meetings to occur, for people to come, and He has made me say certain things. It is really amazing because I am not doing anything." (p. 10)

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

To belittle, you have to be little.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

My feeling about myself," Oppenheimer later said of this period in his life, "was always one of extreme discontent. I had very little sensitiveness to human beings, very little humility before the realities of this world.

In retrospect, all of his friends noted that he seemed to be wrestling in these years with inner demons. "My feeling about myself," Oppenheimer later said of this period in his life, "was always one of extreme discontent. I had very little sensitiveness to human beings, very little humility before the realities of this world.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.

ceux qui se révèlent incapables de sentir en eux-mêmes la petitesse des grandes choses ne sauraient reconnaître chez les autres la grandeur des petites choses.

Cel care nu e conÈ™tient de propria micime nu va putea niciodat? înÈ›elege grandoarea celuilalt.

Our reasoning brain is weak, and our tongue is weaker still", remarks St Basil the Great. "It is easier to measure the entire sea with a tiny cup than to grasp God's ineffable greatness with the human mind."10

Isaac the Syrian warns us that God's wrath visits all who refuse the bitter cross of agony, the cross of active suffering, and who, striving after visions and special graces of prayer, waywardly seek to appropriate the glories of the Cross. He also says, "God's grace comes of itself, suddenly, without our seeing it approach. It comes when the place is clean." Therefore, carefully, diligently, constantly clean the place; sweep it with the broom of humility.

Pride goeth before destruction," he quoted, "and a haughty spirit before a fall.

I think basically we know how stupid we are, that's why we don't do interviews.

I like to just be humble. The more interviews, the more embarrassed I kind of get.

I find myself to be the least intimidating person ever.

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.

I am intimidating no one in America. No one feels like they are below me in any way. They feel like they are absolutely either at or above my level and 100-percent comfortable talking to me.