Lowly Quotes
117 quotes by 102 authors
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Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that…
— Cecil Frances Alexander
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The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker,…
— Vikas Swarup
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The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
— John Calvin
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Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of this World; and…
— John Woolman
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Most of the things that really matter require faith. How do I know that my wife loves me? How do I know that Mozarts Jupiter…
— N. T. Wright
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When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
— Franz Grillparzer
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The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This…
— Laozi
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The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite'
— Doron Zeilberger
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The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.
— Salvador de Madariaga
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The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far…
— Henry B. Eyring
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The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said, "Thy will, O…
— Frank I. Kooyman
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Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness here…
— Edgar Guest
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I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its…
— James Russell Lowell
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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
— Seneca the Younger
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Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He…
— Dwight L. Moody
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I hymn and bless Your uncountable compassion and philanthropy, as You desired to number me with Your chosen servants. Look down, now, upon me the…
— Marina of Aguas Santas
Who Wrote These Lowly Quotes
102 authors contributed a total of 117 Lowly Quotes, led by these top contributors: