Abasement Quotes

• Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Humility, Self, Opposites

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• But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Humility, Self, Arrogance

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• Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

  José Ortega y Gasset

  Frustration, Men, Aggravation

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• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Depression, Struggle, Blow

  Victor Hugo (1980). "Los miserables", Viking Pr

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• The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

  Karl Marx

  Humility, Self, Quality

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1963). “The Communist manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels”

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• Si el amor es el alma de la existencia cristiana, debe estar en el corazón de cualquier otra virtud cristiana. Así, por ejemplo, la justicia sin amor es legalismo; la fe sin amor es ideología; la esperanza sin amor es egocentrismo; el perdón sin amor es abajamiento; la fortaleza sin amor es temeridad; la generosidad sin amor es extravagancia; el cuidado sin amor es mero deber; la fidelidad sin amor es servidumbre. Toda virtud es una expresión de amor. Ninguna virtud es realmente virtud si no está impregnada o informada por el amor.

  Richard Rohr

  Amor, Cristiano, Corazón

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• It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

  Aristotle

  Ignorance, Men, Self

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• Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Grieving, Passing Away, Prosperity

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• The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.

  E. Franklin Frazier

  Hate, Believe, Self

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• La independencia es el reconocimiento del hecho de que la responsabilidad de juzgar es tuya y nada puede ayudarte a escapar de ella, que ningún sustituto puede pensar por ti, como ningún bateador puede vivir tu vida, que la forma más vil de autodestrucción y autohumillación es la subordinación de tu mente a la mente de otro, la aceptación de una autoridad sobre tu cerebro, la aceptación de sus afirmaciones como hechos, su opinión como verdad, sus edictos como intermediarios entre tu conciencia y tu existencia.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsabilidad, Aceptación, Hombres

  Ayn Rand (1988). "El léxico Ayn Rand: Objectivism from A to Z", p.225, Penguin

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• There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Punishment, Voice, Valleys

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.67, Xist Publishing

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• Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Pain, Self

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.152, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Según el espíritu de esta época, el pecado supremo ya no es no honrar y dar gracias a Dios, sino no estimarse a sí mismo. La humillación de uno mismo, no la humillación de Dios, es el mal. Y el grito de liberación no es "¡Oh miserable de mí, quién me librará!", sino "¡Oh digno de mí, ojalá pudiera verlo mejor!".

  John Piper

  Self Esteem, Men, Evil

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• El orgullo es algo terrible y peligroso. Puede adoptar muchas formas; incluso puede asumir la apariencia de humildad. El orgullo puede conducir no sólo a la exaltación, sino también a la humillación. La clave para combatir el orgullo no está en luchar contra la idea que tenemos de nosotros mismos o en esforzarnos por considerarnos humildes. La clave se encuentra simplemente en no pensar en nosotros mismos en absoluto, sino en poner nuestra mente en Cristo y en las necesidades de los demás.

  Paul Washer

  Struggle, Humility, Pride

  Fuente: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot by all and despised, accepting injustice, contempt and mockery; unless he undergoes all these things with joy for the sake of the Lord, not claiming any kind of human reward whatsoever - glory or honor or earthly pleasures - he cannot become a true Christian.

  Marcos Evangelista

  Christian, Humility, Men

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• Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States.

  Enoch Powell

  Crazy, Self, Order

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• Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It like the rays from the sun. The Eucharist was the oracle which she consulted, the grace which she followed. But Jesus Christ in His Sacrament lives the same life of love which consumed Him in His mortal days. In His sacramental state He continues to adore His Father by His depthless self-abasement. He is still the Mediator and Interceder with divine goodness for the salvation of men

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Father, Men

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• ... En Estados Unidos hemos dependido de las plegarias, las súplicas y el autoengaño a una deidad para obtener ventajas mágicas, y se nos ha animado a atribuir nuestra prosperidad y éxito general entre las naciones a ese tipo de acciones. En mi opinión, el trabajo duro y la dedicación a la lógica y la razón deberían reconocerse como las razones de nuestros logros, no las apelaciones a un amigo mítico en el cielo. Hemos llegado donde estamos a pesar de esos conjuros, no gracias a ellos.

  James Randi

  Oración, trabajo duro, dedicación

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• There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from it because of the limitations of human nature and [find] safety in abasement. I know many things that are unknown to most men, yet I am more ignorant than all others. I rejoice because Christ, 'whom I have believed' (II Tim. 1:12), has bestowed on me an eternal and unshakable kingdom, yet I constantly weep as one who is unworthy of that which is above, and I cease not.

  Simeón el Nuevo Teólogo

  Christian, Men, Safety

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• I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Pigs, Self

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth round its roots so the tree is able to get its roots deeper into the earth, where it receives fresh supplies of nourishment. But only much later will it be seen to bring forth better fruit. So corruptions and temptations develop the roots of humility, self-abasement and mourning in a deeper search for that grace by which holiness grows strong. But only later will there be visible fruits of increased holiness.

  John Owen

  Strong, Humility, Self

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• Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Soul, Comfort

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1803). “Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life”, p.172

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• Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Humble, Humility, Reality

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