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Humility Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is…
- True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
- Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.
- Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
- Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.
- 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,…
- If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely,…
- Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.
- If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
- Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
- A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards,…
- My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and…
- What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a…
- A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.
- By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men…
- We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or…
- 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…
- There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in…
- Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty…
- And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at…
- The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite,…
- The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,…
- We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility…
More Humility Quotes
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. — Saint Augustine
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin
- Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. — Teresa of Avila
- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. — Teresa of Avila
- We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in… — Teresa of Avila
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. — Teresa of Avila