humility - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • teach: Yet even in all our might, we are taught humility.
  • show: Instead, they should be gentle and show true humility to everyone.
  • learn: Well, he has some time now to learn a little humility.
  • require: Secondly, wisdom requires the humility to listen and to learn.
  • display: The most common way of displaying humility is through the bow.

Adjective modifier

  • false: Apart from false humility, who in their senses would turn down such an offer?
  • genuine: Let us therefore recognize the goodness of genuine humility.
  • profound: Adore the mysterious child, offering him gifts with profound humility.
  • true: Thus true humility always complies with God in what He says.
  • deep: Deep humility led him to lay all the honors he received at the feet of his Master, Jesus Christ.

Modifies a noun

  • simplicity: Winner is the humility simplicity and social norms downtown offices of.

Noun used with modifier

  • thy: And in thy growing weakness Feel thy humility before God and thy fellows.

Preposition: in

  • face: This idea suggests a pleasing humility in the face of the mysteries of spiritual reality.
  • place: Let me quote: " What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place.

Preposition: of

  • mind: Like Paul said, " Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.
  • spirit: I approve of their delicacy of conscience and their humility of spirit.
  • heart: Now all three of these terms demonstrate the gracious humility of the heart of Paul.

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