Adela Florence Nicolson Quotes

His Littleness

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

I'm just a small guy.

I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.

I don't think what I have to say is that important.

Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

Better to be in the dust than crawl near the throne.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority..

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.

I guess I just do 'emasculated' and 'meek' very well.

I have no power, and that's what's so humbling.

You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.

you're just a side dish not the main course!

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. We are not speaking of a wholesome view of self-worth, which is best established by a close relationship with God. But we are speaking of pride as the universal sin, as someone has described it. . . . Essentially, pride is a "my will" rather than "thy will" approach to life. The opposite of pride is humbleness, meekness, submissiveness, or teachableness.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.