Quotes About Humility

Hoshan I experienced profound spiritual awareness," he said slowly. "It began with a devastating recognition of my failures and shortcomings. Only when all my pride and arrogance had been stripped away did I experience divine compassion so infinite that it could forgive all my weaknesses and fill me with light.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

If any of us ever re-worried abot a request, Mom would say, "If you think you can handle it better than God, it´s coming out."Just the suggestion that we thought we were more powerful than God put us in out places and made us stop fretting and start believing.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

Charles is going to be fine," said Annie. "Yep," said Jack with a smile. "He never even knew that it was us who helped him." "That's the best way to help someone, I think," said Annie. "Why?" asked Jack. "Then you know you're not helping them just to get a lot of credit," said Annie. "You're helping because it's the right thing to do.

Fix, by God's help, not only to root out this sin, but to set thyself to gain, by that same help, the opposite grace. If thou art tempted to be angry, try hard, by God's grace, to be very meek; if to be proud, seek to be very humble. E. B. PUSEY.

Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It humbles us and grants us permission to fumble, and not know, and fail, and also to take pleasure in the small triumphs of our days.

for the purposes of my own spirituality, it is far more useful to recognize the limitations of my knowledge; to humble myself, not before a deity, but simply to be humble; to surrender, again, not to a God but simply to surrender; and to accept. Not accept certain facts; but simply to train myself in the practice of acceptance.

I knocked on the gates of heaven and saint peter said,"we are not ready for you, Mother Teresa.You are needed in the slums.There are no slums up here.

So remember, if you're feeling bitter or sorry for yourself about what you've done, and how much good you've accomplished or if you find yourself more than anyone else talking about the good you've done, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, because it should be the default.

There is no alarm clock like embarassment.

There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,

Many are happy to give advice; few are happy to take it.

Forgive me for being at my toilette,

Let us become the kind of people who can take pleasure in elevating others, rather than trying to place ourselves in a superior position by lowering others.

Non c'è nessuno così grande come chi non cerca di realizzare niente.

True culture is born within nature, and is simple, humble, and pure. Lacking true culture, humanity will perish.

By being high, you become low and by being low, you become high. By being humble, you become high.

A candle cannot boast standing next to the sun.

A river cannot boast to a sea.

A wise man is a student though he is a teacher.

Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.

Seek to be the smartest in a room, not the loudest.

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.