Abasement Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot…
— Mark the Evangelist
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Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth…
— John Owen
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Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep…
— Christopher Hitchens
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But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.
— Stephen Mitchell
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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do…
— Ayn Rand
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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when…
— Aristotle
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The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
— Karl Marx
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There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability…
— Victor Hugo
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Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from it because of…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged…
— James Randi
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Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It like the rays from the…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love…
— Richard Rohr
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Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this…
— Clarice Lispector
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There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its…
— Dag Hammarskjold
Who Wrote These Abasement Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Abasement Quotes as follows: