Quotes About Humility

I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such small things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is!

I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me

the Cowardly Lion laughed, and said: I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is! But

those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they know all there is to know, while them as knows the most admits what a turr'ble big world this is. It's the knowing ones that realize one lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of knowledge

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows, observed the shaggy man.

But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything? I

Folks gener'ly gets stuck-up 'cause they don't know theirselves like other folks knows 'em.

Asking for advice is an act of humility.... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship.

You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

Shamanism is not a religion. It's a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman's path can become a way of life.

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility .

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

Christianity is a religion for losers.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.