For he hath regarded: the lowliness of his hand-maiden.
And she arose with all her strength to serve Thee, to beseech the Heaven of Thy mercy, and in lowliness to entreat Thee and to rest her heart upon Thee.
The lowliness of his extraction cannot have been any serious impediment to him, for before the end of his thirty-sixth year he was a sergeant.
Once I offered to assist her; but she was too proud in her lowliness to respond to my proffered aid.
Her gossimer gown of pink, her gold, her diamonds, her fine face, all appealed to the poor girl of suchlowliness to such an ecstatic degree that she was astonished beyond belief.
For lowliness of condition and lack of qualities appealing to men's false ideals will certainly lead to being 'despised and rejected.
The utmost lowliness and the most resolved resistance to opposing forces are found in that prophetic image of the Servant of the Lord--even as they are found in the highest degree and most perfectly in Jesus Christ.
But the access of majesty does not imply the putting off of lowliness and meekness.
Singularly enough the world has accepted Him at His own estimate, and has felt that these lofty assertions of absolute perfection were borne out by His life, and were consistent with the utmost lowliness of heart.
Pure Wisdom leads People into Lowliness of Mind, in which they learn Resignation to the Divine Will, and Contentment in suffering for his Cause, when they cannot keep a clear Conscience without suffering.
He often expressed an earnest Engagement that pure Wisdom should be attended to, which would lead intoLowliness of Mind and Resignation to the divine Will, in which State small Possessions here would be sufficient.
The effect of the descent of One so high must be to raise the lowliness to which He bends.
Consciousness of sin and conscious reception of redemption therefrom precede true lowliness, and such lowliness should follow such consciousness.
The greatness of His nature expressed by His name is vividly contrasted with the tenderness and lowliness of His working.
The psalmist does not pray; still less does he contradict his lowliness in the very act of declaring it, by pluming himself on it.
He seems to float in upper air like the eagle, looking down upon the lowliness of earth beneath.
I need a strong body that I may be able to climb the rocky pathway of life to the summit, to the eagle's eyry, far above the lowliness of life.
Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but inlowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.
They do nothing in strife and vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind each one esteemeth other better than themselves," Phil.
With him "lowliness is young ambition's ladder:" but he finds it a toil to climb in this way the steep of Fame.
You well know, that both reason and religion require us to regard all men as our brothers, and that one of the golden rules of the latter is, in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself.
No change from that meekness andlowliness of heart that characterized his whole life was visible now.
With discipline like this, He often tries The creatures He hath made, to crush the seeds Of pride, and teach that lowliness of soul Befitting them, and pleasing in His sight.
The lowliness and death of Christ are the glory of God!
The omission may be accounted for on a principle which seems to run through all this Gospel--of touching lightly or omitting indications of our Lord's dignity, and dwelling by preference on His acts of lowliness and service.
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face.
Its crown is meekness; its life is everlasting love unfeigned; it takes its kingdom with entreaty, and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind.
But, bowed in lowliness of mind, I make my humble wishes known; I only ask a will resigned, O Father, to Thine own!
In true silence strength is renewed, and the mind is weaned from all things, save as they may be enjoyed in the Divine will; and a lowliness in outward living, opposite to worldly honor, becomes truly acceptable to us.
