Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Christian Quotes, Humility Quotes

The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'

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Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.

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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.

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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.

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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

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

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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

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The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

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No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

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Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.

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Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

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Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

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