Quotes About Humility

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

A man is powerful on his knees.

It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.

God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.