Lowly Quotes (11 quotes)

“Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: being-heard, ceo, discernment, doctor, humble, judge, king, lowly, pastor, ruler, society, underdog, voice-of-the-nations, world

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“A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy.”
― Shaun Hick

tags: barren, crying, defeated, depression, emptiness, empty, enemy, low, lowly, realisation, sadness, silence, suicide

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“Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. 'Odd, isn't it,' he said, 'that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

tags: lowly, repentance, rich, sin, thief

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“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, anonymous, aphorism, aphorisms, attain, attainment, axiom, axioms, bible, chance, chances, christian, christianity, christians, come-back, conscious, death, deep, dictum, dictums, dying, epigram, epigrams, fame, famous, forget, forgot, forgotten, funny, gnome, gnomes, heart, heartbeat, human, human-being, human-beings, humans, humor, humorous, humour, immortal, immortality, inconsequential, infamy, insane, insanity, insightful, insignificant, jesus, jesus-christ, judgement, judgement-day, known, last-judgement, last-name, little-known, lowly, lust, lust-for, made-me-think, make-you-think, manage, maxim, maxims, memory, minor, mortal, mortality, name, nameless, obscure, obscurity, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, remember, remembered, retain, sane, sanity, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, second-coming, south-africa, south-african, surname, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unconscious, undistinguished, unheard-of, unimportant, unknown, unnoticed, unrecognized, unsung

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“Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.”
― Martin Luther, Sermon on the Mount and the Magnificat

tags: lowly, misery, poverty

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“When you think no one sees you and you are so clouded in your messy state that you begin to think maybe just maybe even GOD is fed up. Know this: He sees the tears, collects them, pays you double for them, fortifies you with encouragement even through them and He will lift up your spirit.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

tags: crying, don-t-give-up, double-portion, encourage, encouragement, god, inspirational-quotes, invisible, life, life-lessons, lowly, motivational-quotes, tears, truth, word

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“The humble shall seek help from the heavenly Father.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

tags: christian-life, god, help, humble, lowly

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“And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us.”
― H G Wells, The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells (Fiction, war, Military) [Annotated]

tags: alien, creatures, lowly, men

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“I was passed out cold while my family was murdered. It's hard to fall more lowly that that.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: cardan, cardan-greenbriar, drunk, holly-black, lowly, murdered, passed-out, the-cruel-prince, the-folk-of-the-air

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“The highest experiences in the spiritual life are full of humility.”
― Brother Pedro

tags: humility-advice, jesus, lowly, lowly-jesus, spiritual, spiritual-growth, spiritual-quotes, spirituality, spirituality-quotes

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“As you consider the Father's heart for you, remember that he is the Father of mercies. He is not cautious in his tenderness towards you. He multiplies mercies matched to your every need, and there is nothing he would rather do...

The heart of Christ is gentle and lowly. And that is the perfect picture of who the Father is. 'The Father himself loves you.' (John 16:27)”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

tags: christ, father-of-mercies, gentle, how-he-loves-us, lowly

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