Humility Quotes - Page 6

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others.

Shine your soul with the same
egoless humility as the rainbow
and no matter where you go
in this world or the next,
love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown.

- Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After"

from the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache

Humility adds lessons to our pain and suffering, turning the seemingly senseless into meaning.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Gratitude is the heart of humility, and humility is the path to peace, love, and understanding.

The 'HIGHway' to peace is humility!

...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, "I need God and His family.

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its essence

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.