Top 191 Lowly Quotes & Sayings

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.

I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection.

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action. And I want, in those silent, somehow faltering times, to be with someone who knows, or else alone. I want to reflect everything about you, and I never want to be too blind or too ancient to keep your profound wavering image with me. I want to unfold. I don't want to be folded anywhere, because there, where I'm folded, I am a lie.

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.

Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly.

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

We're not lowly sinners, we're not worthless beings. We are something jewel-like and beautiful.

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

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.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.

The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls.

I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.

Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.

no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.

Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that Mother mild Jesus Christ her little Child . . . With the poor, and mean, and lowly, Lived on earth our Savior Holy.

Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.

When I arrived at the point where I received public acclaim, I felt the most lowly, because I knew within myself that I had but begun to tap my inner resources.

The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.

You are not only the solar spectrum with the seven luminous colours, but the sun himself, that illumines, warms, and revivifies! This is what you are, and I am the lowly woman that adores you.

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

Highly fed and lowly taught.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

The laws of the lowly gangster govern Qaddafi and his sons.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

Holiness is not some lofty experience, unattainable except to those who can leap the stars, but it is rather a lowly experience, which lowly people in the lowly walks of life can share with Jesus, by letting His mind be in them.

Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.

Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite'

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.