Flattery is too commonly practised; and there is no sufficient guard against its dangerous consequences, except a constant and humbling recognition of the spirituality of the law of God, and our lamentable deficiency in fulfilling it.
Signor," replied the Toledan, with embarrassment, "I cannot control my astonishment at hearing one of the greatest princes of the Ottoman empire avow his intention of so far humbling himself as to wed with a slave.
Hester's own heart led her to assent to that humbling doctrine of the catechism, that We are by nature born in sin; and truly glad was she to be relieved by hearing of That spiritual grace by which we have a new birth unto righteousness.
I was so desirous of humbling myself before God and her, that I offered even to try to wash.
It would seem that the darling object of Philip Augustus was to make France the great monarchy of Europe; and he was bent, therefore, on humbling the pride and appropriating the Continental territory of the Plantagenets.
My lord’s honour and mine own are concerned inhumbling their pride.
After the humbling events in his life to which our attention has been lately called, it is a relief to witness the noble bearing of the venerable saint amid the pelting of this most pitiless storm.
But there was no need for his humbling himself so low.
The faithless king who gave his word and broke it found himself involved in fresh miseries without an opportunity of humbling himself again.
We should simply admire the purity, the absence of cruel and degrading accessories, with which this most perilous and yet humbling and admonitory doctrine was held in Israel.
Houseman sought me again, and now came on the humbling part of crime, its low calculations, its poor defence, its paltry trickery, its mean hypocrisy!
There is something, Lester, humbling to human pride in a rustic's life.
In the darkness and solitude he continues praying and humblinghimself before God.
The monarch, not loath to bring into contrast the power and acuteness of the opposing champions, and glad of an opportunity of humbling the pride of these haughty monks, bade the Romanists defend their cause by the Bible.
Had they received the message from heaven, humbling their hearts before the Lord, and seeking in sincerity a preparation to stand in His presence, the Spirit and power of God would have been manifested among them.
Tullus At'tius was a most determined enemy to the Romans, and to Coriola'nus in particular, for the share he had in humbling the power of the Vol'sci.
But notwithstanding their repeated triumphs, the Romans discovered that the conquest of Sicily was only to be obtained by humbling the power of Carthage at home.
What a deeply humbling picture of the human heart have we in that one sentence, "Thou mayest not hide thyself"!
It is only by humbling ourselves on all occasions that we can walk in the path of true humility, and root out of our hearts all secret pride.
In attending the sick he was particularly ambitious to serve them in the lowest and most humbling offices.
On the fifth Day of the fifth Month, 1768, I left Home under the humbling Hand of the Lord, having obtained a Certificate, in order to visit some Meetings in Maryland; and to proceed without a Horse looked clearest to me.
Hence I was at three Meetings in my Way; and so I went Home, under a humbling Sense of the gracious Dealings of the Lord with me, in preserving me through many Trials and Afflictions in my Journey.
Through thehumbling Dispensations of divine Providence, Men are sometimes fitted for his Service.
My Heart was turned to the Lord for his heavenly Instruction; and it was an humbling Time to me.
Under the humbling Power of Christ I have seen, that if the Leadings of his Holy Spirit were faithfully attended to by his professed Followers in general, the Heathen Nations would be exampled in Righteousness.
Upon this Archelaus changed his tone, and humbling himself, entreated Sulla to give up the war and to come to terms with Mithridates.
The fact is, that simply to do right is too difficult for them, and too humbling also.
This and other naval victories, while they served to animate and gratify the whole American people, were humbling to the pride of Great Britain.
While humbling themselves, God was blessing and exalting them.
It draws towards itself communication of God's infinite self, with all His quickening and cleansing and humbling powers.
Wherefore confession is the discipline of a man's prostrating and humbling himself, enjoining such a conversation as invites mercy.
Forty years later, another Napoleon joined England in making war on Russia and humbling her in the Crimea: now France and Russia advertise their enthusiastic attachment to each other.
Naturally also France was permanently jealous of the power which had destroyed her dream of naval supremacy, and had played the leading part in humbling Louis XIV.
The confession herein contained, concerns that one lie; and I need not ask you to realise how humbling it is to my pride to have to force the hearing of a confession upon the man who has already refused to admit me to a visit of friendship.
Simpson would have found me weeping on the studio floor; and to ask his assistance under those circumstances, would have been more humbling than inquiring after the fly in the soup!
And never was his hand more visibly displayed in the casting down of the wicked, than in humbling Cornwallis and his bloody crew.
And He, if He has set His love upon you, and purposes to make you a temple for His indwelling, will use method after method of humbling you to prepare for His entrance.
In the last humbling you will find that there is rising within you a certain pride in the humility itself.
This proverb is inscribed on the facts that transpire every fall, and it ought to find a humbling and condemning application somewhere.
From this general truth, a very humblinginference necessarily follows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humbling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
