Quotes About Humility

When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.

Looking deeper into African way of life, it wasn't religious; it was spiritual. When you go into spiritualism, spiritualism will teach you about virtues, how to be patient, humble and kind.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

A guru trains his disciples to become Krishna dasa, a menial servant of Krishna.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression.

If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.

Without humility, all spiritual progress stops.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

Azhar Usman is very funny, deeply spiritual, and extremely hairy. He's like Zach Galifianakis meets Deepak Chopra-and funnier than you'd expect that combination to be.

Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that 'this should not be so'.

As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive.

Being unashamed is true humility.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.