Humility Humiliation Quotes

#1. What is the way out of shame?
It is the way of humility, not humiliation. It is the way of being known, not exposed.

Edward T. Welch

#2. There is only one certain test of the virtue and that is humiliation. The acceptance of humiliation alone shows the depth and reality of our humility.

Nivard Kinsella

#3. Humility fears not humiliation.

John Spencer Yantiss

#4. Perhaps," observes James McPherson, "McClellan's career had been too successful. He had never known . . . the despair of defeat or the humiliation of failure. He had never learned the lessons of adversity and humility." Lincoln had clearly learned those lessons.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#5. Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.

Andrew Murray

#6. Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

David Whyte

#7. This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

Pope Francis

#8. Do not confuse humility with humiliation.

Alan Cohen

#9. The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.

Liu Xia

#10. Humility may bring you humiliation here on earth, but surely not in heaven.

Michael Ugwu Eneja

#11. Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

Edmund Burke

#12. It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

Michael Johnson

#13. Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility - a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

Maria Shriver

#14. We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

Vance Havner

#15. But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

Stephen Mitchell

#16. Any country that is now humbled and humiliated by darkness will be raised up by God

Sunday Adelaja

#17. There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

David Whyte

#18. I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

Richard Rohr

#19. For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears, and third laughter.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.

George H. Brimhall

#21. Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

Alan Cohen

#22. 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

#23. We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

Mother Teresa

#24. It's probably possible to gain humility by means other than repeated humiliation, but repeated humiliation works very well.

Mark Vonnegut

#25. The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

Kathy Acker

#26. To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

Dan B. Allender