A With No Humility Quotes
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.
One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.
The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.
Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.
Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
The student must have a very humble state of mind and also must be very inquisitive.
Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
True humility means giving joy to others.
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.
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.
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.
When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.
The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.
Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
