Self Abasement Quotes

12 quotes by 11 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
• Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. — Dag Hammarskjold
• ... 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
• 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
• 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 Self Abasement Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 Self Abasement Quotes as follows:

• 2 Self Abasement Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold
• 1 Self Abasement Quote by James Randi
• 1 Self Abasement Quote by Peter Julian Eymard
• 1 Self Abasement Quote by Richard Rohr
• 1 Self Abasement Quote by Clarice Lispector
• 1 Self Abasement Quote by Mark the Evangelist
• 1 Self Abasement Quote by John Owen
• 1 Self Abasement Quote by Christopher Hitchens
• 1 Self Abasement Quote by Stephen Mitchell
• 1 Self Abasement Quote by Ayn Rand
• 1 Self Abasement Quote by Aristotle