Quotes About Humility

Quotation confesses inferiority.

You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has written.

When I heard the Earth-song / I was no longer brave; / My avarice cooled / Like lust in the chill of the grave.

Just as studying our place in the vast universe should teach us humility, learning how the smallest of creatures play essential roles in nature's scheme should further instruct our mind and enrich our character. The lessons of nature point the way to wisdom.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it.

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

At times Maharajji's behavior reminds me of a story Ramakrishna tells of a saint who asked a snake not to bite but to love everyone. The snake agreed. But then many people threw things at the snake. The saint found the snake all battered. "I didn't say not to hiss," said the saint.

Maharajji invited a famous pundit to come to Kainchi and recite the Shrimad Bhagavatam. This man was used to reciting before large and very receptive crowds, and he complained to Maharajji that on this occasion he had to recite to only a few illiterate villagers. Maharajji gently rebuked him and said, "Don't worry. Hanumanji is listening.

Not my but Thy will, O Lord.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).

Nothing is more poisonous than the spirit of entitlement that permeates our culture and sometimes, sadly, our churches.

Chesterton says, in essence, that there is a dislocation of humility in our times. We have become more confident in who we are and less in what we believe. Our pride has moved us from the organ of conviction to the organ of ambition, when it is intended to be the other way around. In short, our confidence should be in our message and not in ourselves.

Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.

Ask without pettiness Being before doing Convictions without compromise Discipline without dreariness Ask

God alone knows how to humble us without humiliating us and how to exalt us without flattering us. And how he effects this is the grand truth of the Christian message.

true spirituality will never submit to pride.

Debes saber que eres el templo de Dios. Vive inmerso en la oración. Vive tu vida con humildad de espíritu y sirve por motivos rectos. Procura el consejo y el ejemplo de hombres y mujeres consagrados. Por último, reconoce la preeminencia de Cristo en todo. Esos

A veces, quienes hemos sido bendecidos tan grandemente parecemos ser los menos capaces de ver la gracia de la mano de Dios sobre nosotros mismos.

if you are reading this and you really believe that you're perfect, there's only one solution to that predicament: you need to get married. If you are married, then you need to start listening!