Quotes About Humility

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.

Be a light unto others, not boastful of self.

Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary.

Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

The church is not made up of spiritual giants; only broken men can lead others to the cross.

A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.

Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.

When there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness.