On his part Luc was struggling with an overwhelming sense of humility in being thus suddenly sought out by the man whom, of all others, he most admired and respected.
For the first time in his life he was really in love, with all the humility of the condition.
He disliked himself very cordially, loathing himself and his situation with the new-born humility of the lover.
It is a book to be read with humility and a total absence of that mild conceit which refuses to accept any but domestic and partial criticism.
When any habit becomes fixed it requires a high degree of humility and moral courage to root it out.
Once there, the very humilityof her love for Dick was an element in favor of the idea.
The new humility extended to his love for Elizabeth.
Stands before it, his mockhumility gone, his voice resounding.
I will not, if it is flattering; for I have learned aforetime that humility is the forerunner of advancement.
With all her humility and self-sacrifice she remained aristocrat enough to insist on being head and organizer.
In his childlike, pious humility he regarded himself as by no means called to carry out this work, but felt it his duty to insist upon the necessity of it, and indicate the means that should be used to realize it.
But humility conveys the notion of a penal evil, according to Ps.
Therefore it belongs to humility to restrain not the desire of difficult things but the estimate thereof.
Consequently, although humility is in the irascible as its subject, it is assigned as a part of modesty or temperance by reason of its mode.
Now the inward disposition of humility leads to certain outward signs in words, deeds, and gestures, which manifest that which is hidden within, as happens also with the other virtues.
Now, not humility but faith is the first of all virtues.
Therefore if humility were to curb the desire of great things, it would follow that humility is not a distinct virtue from magnanimity, which is evidently false.
Gratia xxxiv): "Humility should take the part of truth, not of falsehood.
Concerning humilitythere are six points of inquiry: (1) Whether humility is a virtue?
In this wayhumility may be competent to every man.
He feigned humility to get closer to his vengeance, but he could not combat knowledge.
There's weather for you," and he spoke with the proud humility of one who had made that weather, but would not boast.
And in company with this virtue are Prudence and Humility, in order to show that where there is true obedience there are ever humility and prudence, which enable us to carry out every action well.
In these he made the Passion of Christ, with effects ingenious and beautiful, showing very great humility and sweetness in Christ, who is washing the feet of His Disciples, and ferocity and cruelty in the Jews, who are leading Him to Herod.
Those acquainted with the modesty and humility of President Woodruff can easily understand his feelings of grave concern and deep anxiety at such a time.
He had striven in the humility of his heart to gain divine favor.
There upon his knees in humility and childlike simplicity, he told the Lord his wishes and his hopes.
In a remarkable letter[113] to Gregory, Henry asserts that he has shown himself long-suffering and eager to guard the honor of the papacy, but that the pope has mistaken his humility for fear.
At last he learned that only through pity and humility and faith in God could he hope to find the Grail.
Their humility was to show itself in face and attitude, so that their very appearance should attract those with whom they came in contact to the service of God.
The Jesuits' air of humility the Protestants declared to be mere hypocrisy under which they carried on their intrigues.
In this he was assisted by the chiefs, whose wives performed, in a separate place, the same act of humility toward some sick women.
Accepting this rude blow with humility and Christian resignation, he withdrew to the convent of San Pablo de los Montes, where he spent the following year in prayer and pious works.
Is there scope for this true inwardness of all religion, the power to comprehend itself and all the world in humility in the light of that which is not of the world, but is above world and existence?
A knowledge of history always tends to promote humility and reverence, and to check the spread of capricious perversions of judgment.
I am of the sincerity with which thy pure mind ever wished to avoid all exuberance of praise, I yet presume to send into the world such a tribute to thy virtues as thy humility might reject.
For the first time in his life something resembling humility manifested itself, a humility which sat gracefully upon the possessor of variously estimated millions.
Jacob with humility departed out of his own country, fleeing from his brother, and went unto Laban and served him; and so the sceptre of the twelve tribes of Israel was given unto him.
That being endued withhumility and moderation, they may submit not unto us, but to the wish of God.
And moreover thou shalt suffer adversity but for a little time; and then thou shalt again be restored to thy former state; only continue on in the humility of thy mind.
Warns them against heretics, 4 exhorts them to humility and unity, 10 and briefly sets before them the true doctrine concerning Christ.
For by fasting and humbling herself, she entreated the Great Maker of all things, the God of spirits; so that beholding the humility of her soul, he delivered the people, for whose sake she was in peril.
For by forbearance and humility of mind, men shall attain unto life; but by seditions and contempt of the law, they shall purchase death unto themselves.
The sceptre of the majesty of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, came not in the show of pride and arrogance, though he could have done so; but with humility as the Holy Ghost had before spoken concerning him.
A kind of proud humility was constantly present in his speech and bearing.
At last he said, in a voice of much sweetness, 'Your patient care and kindness are not the less dear to me that I ascribe them to a source your humility would reject.
Still he deemed it more in accordance with the humility he affected to seek admission by a small garden gate, which opened on the Pincian hill.
This was humility only, no wavering from her transcending faith.
This picture, delicately austere, is fitted, line for line, to the obedient humility of Louise Guiney’s life.
Francesca was profoundly sensible of the blessedness of this gift, and grateful for the power it afforded her of relieving the sufferings of others; but at the same time her humility prompted her to conceal it as much as possible.
Their exact and spontaneous obedience to the gentle Agnese was as remarkable as the sweetness and humility with which she ruled.
The same curse of suffering vitiates Agrippa's ingenious parable and the joyful humility of Dante's celestial friends, and renders both equally irrelevant to human conditions.
The Republican, in the mean while, regarded him with modest cordiality, in which, perhaps, could be traced that humility which is so becoming in a man who is on the point of returning to the dust.
