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Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be...more

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Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.

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The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our or...more

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when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high e...more

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Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.

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Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so...more

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Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

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Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

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Stand by; for I am holier than you!" What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One: the holiest will ever be the humblest. There is ...more

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Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.

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The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willin...more

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Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and e...more

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Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

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Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride,...more