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“Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he...”
“By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”
“We are not worthy to unloose the latchets of Jesus' shoes, because, if we do, we begin to say to ourselves, "What great folks are we; we have been allowed to loose the latchets of the Lord's sandal...”
“[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.”
“When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.”
“If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize Gods ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all thei...”
“That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've...”
“The devilthe prowde spiritecannot endure to be mocked.”
“Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word.”
“Weel, maam' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I hafinished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; theres now to be done wiout t...”
“In every family there is a murderer, a thief and a crazy person. And if you have a little Blue blood in the line, you can be sure there are more than one of each.”
“Too many non-achievers confuse humility with humiliation.”
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”
“Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of e...”
“When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If...”
“Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it i...”
“[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.”
“I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobber...”
“when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is...”
“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”
