Quotes About Humility

It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.

When I think of all I have to be thankful for I wonder that You just don't kill me now because You've done so much for me already & I haven't been particularly grateful.

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

The first product of self-knowledge is humility.

Dear God please give me some place, no matter how small, but let me know it and keep it. If I am the one to wash the second step everyday, let me know it and let me wash it and let my heart overflow with love washing it.

Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of Wise Blood that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote Perhaps I am prematurely arrogant . . .

I have a one-legged friend and I asked her what they said to John at the gate. She said she reckoned they said, "The lame shall enter first." This may be because the lame will be able to knock everybody else aside with their crutches.

If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.

I am the menial, at the beck and squawk of any feathered worthy who wants service.

If I even do get to be a fine writer it will not be because I am a fine writer, but because God has given me credit for a few of the things He kindly wrote for me.

You act like you think you got wiser blood than anybody else," he said, "but you ain't! I'm the one has it. Not you. Me." Haze didn't say anything. He stood there for an instant, small in the

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

By becoming one of the poor who was deprived of his rights, by dying as one of those robbed of justice, God's Son submitted to the utmost extremity of humiliation, entering into total solidarity with those who are without help.

resolve is not incompatible with Christian humility.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

I never had a desire to be famous.

But I don't feel the need to be famous.

It doesn't matter what famous person I've come across in the street, I don't think I've ever shouted.

I arrived thinking I had these amazing looks and body and that I would straight away land the lead in a Yash Chopra film. Those fancy ideas got quashed soon enough.

I'm not a designer, nor do I fancy myself a designer.

If people want to compare me to Danny DeVito, that's the biggest gift there is. I think Danny DeVito is fantastic.

I know very little about farming!

I can tell you right now, anybody that says I'm genius, that is the farthest thing from the truth.