Pastoral Resources

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

True humility is contentment.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Without humility there can be no humanity.