Quotes About Humility

I'm really white trash.

Now I know in part." This lays a demand upon us that we hold the Word of God both in humility and in charity: in humility towards God and in charity towards our brethren.

The text does not say that he emptied himself of the morph? theou or of equality with God. From other references we know that Paul regards Jesus incarnate as the embodiment of deity (Col. 1:19). All that the text states is that "he emptied himself by taking something else to himself, namely, the manner of being, the nature or form of a servant or slave."47 By becoming human, by entering on a path of humiliation that led to death, the divine Son of God emptied himself.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.

A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.

He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.

It just goes to show that no matter how great a nail you give humanity, we'll manage to hammer it into the ground crooked. We suck. It's the nature of our species.

Your ego would survive an apocalypse." "Thank you." "It wasn't a compliment." "It was to me.

You're out of your league, Curran said. No shit. I really didn't handle this whole thing too well, did I? No, he said. His voice held no sympathy. I wanted to ask for a do-over. I would be more restrained the second time around. Less mouthy. Unfortunately in real life you rarely got a do-over.

Such hubris, Marshal." "I detest false modesty.

Hard to live like a king without toilet paper.

Io non trovo mai nessuna difficoltà ad ammettere di essermi sbagliato perché sono convinto che l'infallibilità sia un'esclusiva di Dio e degli imbecilli.

He walked towards them with all the kindness and goodwill he was capable of, but all he felt in their presence was coldness and disgust, not a single glimmer of love, nothing of that divine feeling which even the most miserable of sinners awoke in him when begging for forgiveness. There was more humility in bragging atheists, in hardened blasphemers, than in the eyes and words of these children. Their superficial obedience was terrifying

The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.

Cuál es la diferencia que existe entre yo y estas pequeñas y humildes criaturas? La araña teje su tela, no puede hacer otra cosa. Yo tejo mi conciencia, esta charlatana compulsiva, esta voz vaga y errabunda que pronto enmudecerá. Pero todo es un sueño. La realidad es demasiado dura.

Those who occasion loss of dignity are hard to forgive.

Freedom, we find out, is not an inconsequential chucking of one's weight about, it is the disciplined overcoming of self. Humility is not a peculiar habit of self-effacement, rather like having an inaudible voice, it is self-less respect for reality and one of the most difficult and central of all virtues.

Maybe there are times when one should welcome defeat, tell it to come right in and sit down.

I have lived for nearly ninety years and I know nothing.

But these speculations are too nightmarish. Better to feel 'I shall never know'.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

They were scientists enough to admit that they were wrong.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.