Pastoral Resources

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

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.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.