True Humility Quotes
35 quotes by 35 authors
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True humility is contentment.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
— C.S. Lewis
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It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the…
— Thomas Merton
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When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your…
— St. Catherine of Siena
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What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work…
— Laozi
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True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.
— John Bevere
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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True humility means total dependence on God for everything.
— T. B. Joshua
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May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to…
— Ignatius Loyola
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God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.
— John Keble
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True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.
— Frederick Lenz
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True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
— Bryant H. McGill
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A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish…
— Ellen G. White
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True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with…
— Julian Baggini
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True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
— Martin Luther
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Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being…
— Spencer W. Kimball
Who Wrote These True Humility Quotes
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