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Rh True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments. —.

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. —.

They that know God will be humble, they that know themselves cannot be proud. —.

Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God. —.

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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all. —.

The more we learn what humility is, the less we discover in ourselves. —.

Light-houses don't ring bells and fire cannon to call attention to their shining; they just shine on.