Quotes About Humility

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense; And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence: Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you, with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critic on the last.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

What if the foot, ordained the dust to tread, Or hand, to toil, aspired to be the head? What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind?

Een mens moet zich nooit schamen te bekennen dat hij ongelijk had, daarmee zegt hij slechts in andere woorden dat hij vandaag wijzer is dan hij gisteren was.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

No one has been 'worthy' to receive communion, no one has been prepared for it. At this point all merits, all righteousness, all devotions disappear and dissolve. Life comes again to us as a Gift, a free and divine gift...Everything is free, nothing is due and yet all is given. And, therefore, the greatest humility and obedience is to accept the gift, to say yes - in joy and gratitude.

Braggarts build themselves up, jealous people tear others down, but only loving people build others up.

Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.

When pride comes, then comes dishonor, but with the humble is wisdom" (Prov. 11:2;

If Paul did not love the Corinthians, he would walk away from them and let them flounder in their own cesspool of sin. Instead, he is proactive. He confronts, warns, writes, visits, and even humbles himself before them (2 Cor. 2:5-10; 12:21).

John Oman warns, "unless the pulpit is the place where you are the humblest in giving God's message, it is certain to be the place where you are vainest in giving your own.

Power is like saltwater; the more you drink the thirstier you get. The lure of power can separate the most resolute of Christians from the true nature of Christian leadership, which is service to others. It's difficult to stand on a pedestal and wash the feet of those below.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

We are all stupid. The smartest person is just a little less stupid than the rest of us.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

For there is no gardening without humility, an assiduous willingness to learn, and a cheerful readiness to confess you were mistaken. Nature is continually sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye" (Matt. 7:5).

We must make sure we confess our own sin and shortcomings before approaching our adversary with his.

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Ephesians 4:32 NIV

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.