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Example sentences for "true humility"

  • It is sometimes a great and a true humility to esteem ourselves as bad as may be, but at other times it is a false and a spurious humility.

  • In fine, one act of true humility in the sight of God is of more worth than all the knowledge, sacred and profane, in the whole world.

  • Though we should see our utter wickedness, and how truly we deserve to be in hell, and think that both God and man must despise and abhor us; yet, if this be a true humility, it comes with a certain sweetness and satisfaction attending it.

  • True humility consists in being content with all that God is pleased to ordain for us, believing ourselves unworthy to be called His servants.

  • To be contemned and disrespectfully used by the world, is of great efficacy for improving thyself in true humility; a virtue which finds favor with God.

  • Now when a man by true humility is thoroughly persuaded of all this, and is convinced that he is nothing in the sight of God but a lifeless shadow, then, verily, his repentance is unfeigned, and his heart right before the Lord.

  • And any vice which thou mayest ascribe to others, do thou ascribe at once to them and to thyself, in true humility.

  • And any vice that it may seem to thee to recognize in others, do thou ascribe at once to them and to thyself, using ever a true humility.

  • This is beyond help, unless a man recognizes himself, how he has wronged God, and cuts down that tree of Pride with the sword of true humility, which produces charity in the soul.

  • To make this social league invincible within, each member in the fellowship must show a true humility, abjuring all temptation or desire to be a despot or a grandee.

  • Here is at once a portrait of true humility, and the acme of high nobility.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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