Phrases about humility
Humility is to virtues what the chain is to rosaries: remove the chain, and all the grains fall; remove humility, and all virtues disappear (Holy Cure of Ars)
Humility is the virtue that regulates man’s tendency to exalt himself above his own reality. It consists, above all, in recognizing God as God and Lord, and man as creature and servant (St. Thomas Aquinas)
Humility is the source of all tranquility (San Juan Bosco)
Humility consists not only in saying and thinking that you are full of defects, but in enjoying what others think and say (Saint Therese of the Child Jesus)
The synthesis between wisdom and humility is the eternal inheritance of the disciples of the Divine Master (Saint John Paul II)
This is what humility consists of: in knowing that I am nothing, that I can do nothing but sin, that I am aware of God in everything, and I am very happy with God (San Antonio María Claret)
Humility is contempt for one’s own excellence (Saint Stanislaus of Kostka)
Humility is the virtue by which man despises himself because of the clear knowledge he has of himself (San Bernardo)
Meekness and humility of heart in no way mean weakness (St. John Paul II)
Humility comes from the knowledge that the soul has of itself (Saint Catherine of Siena)
Humble is the one who hides in his own nothingness and knows how to leave himself in God (San Juan De La Cruz)
He who is humble willingly admits that everyone sends him (Saint Therese of the Child Jesus)
He is not humble who does not want to be despised (San José de Calasanz)
The more humble, the greater the good you will do (Holy Cure of Ars)
The waste of the world, what is nothing, God chose to destroy what is, so that no one can boast before God (1 Cor 1,28-29)
No one is truly humble if they are not submitted to every creature, and first and foremost, to the Holy Church our mother (San Francisco de Asís)
The first form of humility is necessary for eternal salvation, and it is that I lower myself and humble myself as much as possible, so that in everything I obey the law of God, in such a way that even if they made me lord of all the things of this world, nor for the temporal life itself, breaking a divine or human commandment that forces me to mortal sin (Saint Ignatius of Loyola)
The second way of humility is more perfect than the first, and it is that I find myself at such a point that I do not want or feel like having wealth more than poverty, wanting honor than dishonor, wanting a long life that short… and not even because they take away my life. life, committing a venial sin (Saint Ignatius of Loyola)
The third way is most perfect humility, and it is that, including the first and the second, and to imitate and resemble Christ our Lord more, I want and choose more poverty, with Christ poor, than wealth; reproaches, with Christ full of them, what honors; and desire more to be esteemed by Christ as vain and crazy, than as wise or prudent in this world (Saint Ignatius of Loyola)
The second degree of humility is that one, by not loving his own will, is not pleased to satisfy his desires, but responds with deeds to the will of God (Saint Benedict)
The third degree of humility consists of submitting to the superior with all obedience for the love of God, imitating the Lord (San Benito)
The fourth degree is that, in obedience, difficulties, contradictions and even injustices to which one is subjected, embrace oneself with patience inside without saying anything, and do not get tired or back down (San Benito)
The fifth degree consists of not hiding, but humbly manifesting bad thoughts and mistakes committed secretly (San Benito)
The sixth degree consists of contenting oneself with the vilest and most abject things, and considering oneself as inept and unworthy for whatever is sent to him (San Benito)
With humility everything is achieved; by force, nothing (San Francisco Javier)
Knowledge will not profit you… without humility (Saint Bonaventure)
Humility exalts, because it makes us subjects of God (Saint Augustine)
Humility is the path of truth (Saint Bernard)
Humility is the daughter of truth; to be humble you have to know God and man perfectly (Saint Louis-Marie Grignon)
The greater the gifts that God gives us, the more humble we must be; because without humility, no virtue is acceptable to God (San Francisco de Asís)
Saint Joseph is the model of the humble (Saint John Paul II)
What pleases God is to see that I love my littleness and my poverty, it is the blind hope that I have in his mercy (Saint Therese of the Child Jesus)
Humility is the magnet of Grace: as the magnet attracts iron, so humility attracts Grace (Saint Louis-Marie Grignon)
With no means is humility more easily achieved than with prayer (St. Stanislaus De Kostka)
Humility is the first grace that Jesus brought when he entered the world (San Cipriano)
To achieve humility it is necessary to have a great desire for it, and to exercise it (San Estanislao De Kostka)
For us, pilgrims on earth, the safest way to reach the homeland is humility, knowledge and contempt for oneself (San Lorenzo Justiniano)
My son, don’t be overwhelmed by prosperity or discouraged by adversity. Be humble, so that God will lift you up, now and in the future. (Saint Stephen, King of Hungary)
May I never seek, may I never find anything outside of you; that the creatures are nothing to me; May I be nothing to them, and may you, Jesus, be everything… may I never be a burden to others, and may no one take care of me; May I be trodden on and forgotten, like a grain of sand of yours, Jesus… May your will be perfectly fulfilled in me… My task is not to take care of myself. (Saint Therese of the Child Jesus).
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