in many religious and philosophical traditions, being connected with notions of transcendent
unity with the universe or the divine, and of egolessness
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The term "humility" comes from the Latin word humilitas, a noun related to the adjective , which may be translated as "humble", but also as "grounded", "from the earth", or "low", since it derives in turns from (earth).
By humility, and the fear of the Lord, are riches, honor, and life.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Catch him 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.
The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.
Humility, that low, sweet root,From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments.
Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.
They that know God will be humble,They that know themselves cannot be proud.
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God.
Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition,Willing to be led by Thee.