Abasement Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

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
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
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
But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance. — Stephen Mitchell
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
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
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille — Karl Marx
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
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. — Dag Hammarskjold
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
... 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
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
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
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
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, itâ€™s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this… — Clarice Lispector
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
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

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