Abasing Quotes

#1. We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.

Monica Johnson

#2. The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.

Richard Baxter

#3. As I said, wear flats. No point in injuring them with heels while they're abasing themselves.

Diane Duane

#4. Could not but think, as I have often remarked to others, that much more of true religion consists in deep humility, brokenness of heart, and an abasing sense of barrenness and want of grace and holiness than most who are called Christians imagine

David Brainerd

#5. It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

Elizabeth George

#6. Sometimes, when one communicates with others, one produces results.

Alex Flinn

#7. We need to educate people about the reality of Islam, the logics of Islam. I am sure every free man in this world would fight the ideology of Islam.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#8. I didn't learn anything while I was talking.

Larry King

#9. Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

Ivy Compton-Burnett