A Quote by George H. Brimhall
Humility is a safeguard against humiliation.
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Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.
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Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.
Humility may bring you humiliation here on earth, but surely not in heaven.
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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
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