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The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
Sep 30, 2025
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
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, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.
As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.
We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.
To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.
you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.
Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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