Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
Quotes about lowliness (8 Quotes)
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambitions ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Man was created with two eyes, so that with one he may see God's greatness, and with the other his own lowliness.
In God's nature, religious mankind perceives the way to height. In His call it hears again the innate voice of life which must have its direction towards the goal of perfection, towards overcoming the feeling of lowliness and transistorizes of the ex
The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.
The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temperance, stableness,
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
I have no relish of them, but abound
In the division of each several crime,
Acting it many ways.
Two kinds of persons know Him those who have a humble heart, and who love lowliness, whatever kind of intellect they may have, high or low and those who have sufficient understanding to see the truth, whatever opposition they may have to it.