Quotes About Humility

True humility can be experienced only when we have come to know our power and use it for the good of others and not for ourselves.

This is what makes Jesus different than the rest of us. After Jesus knew he had all things under his power, he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with a towel that was wrapped around him.

David had one posture: servanthood. Because he saw himself as a servant, he was a shepherd like no one had ever known.

The spirit of a servant is to sacrifice one's own life for the good of those they serve.

Plini de-ngâmfare, stârniÈ›i de mârÈ™av? neobr?zare, Asemenea câinilor f?r? ruÈ™ine, Nu vor s-aud? vocile zeilor.

And when you go to God's house, it ain't got to be no fashion show. You just come as you are.

Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished

If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it.

I like people who are not sure of themselves, the perplexed, the modest, those who try to understand.

Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all around you, don't try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

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, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.

Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.