Quotes About Humility

People who think their shit is gold suffer unusually high rates of hepatitis B.

Where Christ's Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.

Christ refuses none for weakness of parts, that none should be discouraged, but accepts none for greatness

Nay, [2] after conversion we need bruising, that (1) reeds may know themselves to be reeds, and not oaks; even reeds need bruising, by reason of the remainder of pride in our nature, and to let us see that we live by mercy. And (2) that weaker Christians may not be too much discouraged when they see the stronger shaken and bruised.

When blindness and boldness, ignorance and arrogance, weakness and willfulness, meet together in men, it renders them odious to God, burdensome in society, dangerous in their counsels, disturbers of better purposes, intractable and incapable of better direction, miserable in the issue. Where Christ shows his gracious power in weakness, he does it by letting men understand themselves so far as to breed humility, and magnify God's love to such as they are.

The heroic deeds of those great worthies do not comfort the church so much as their falls and bruises do.

Christ came down from heaven, and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls; shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God hath been humble?

A weak hand may receive a rich jewel. A few grapes will show that the plant is a vine, and not a thorn. It is one thing to be deficient in grace, and another thing to lack grace altogether. God knows we have nothing of ourselves

Christ came down from heaven and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls. Shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God has been humble?

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unravel this. We honour it by letting it be that way forever." The quote of a grandmother explaining The Great Mystery of the universe to her grandson.

We need mystery," she said. "Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility, grandson, is the foundation of all learning.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...

He that is not aware of his ignorance, will be only misled by his knowledge.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

In spiritual matters, the only real glory is in the renunciation of glorifying self.

Jesus said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes" (Matthew 11:25). Why would this be? I believe that God desires that His message not be perverted, this message which has eternal significance. Intellectuals are seldom capable of conveying a message just as they have received it, without giving it a personal twist; whereas the simple, ignorant people transmit it faithfully.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

I never saw it coming," I said bleakly. "I thought I was so smart. And each time I talked to her, I dismissed her as some dumb, scattered girl. Meanwhile, she was laughing and countering my moves every step of the way. It's humbling. I don't meet many people like that.

Yeah. I was definitely a snob.

Las tareas pequeñas a menudo muestran un gran corazón. Tu

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, said, "The greatness of a man's power is in the measure of his surrender.

Servants focus on others, not themselves. This is true humility: not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less