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Humble Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.
- The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
- 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…
- The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman…
- And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you…
- "Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to…
- The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens…
- We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in…
More Humble Quotes
- There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. — Saint Augustine
- I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? — Joan Baez
- The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. — James M. Barrie
- Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. — Joseph Addison
- The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. — Joseph Addison
- Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person… — Ezra Taft Benson
- To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. — Ezra Taft Benson
- If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung… — Wendell Berry
- I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers… — Norman Borlaug
- The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real… — Phillips Brooks