Quotes About Humility

all those who storm heaven like giants, without Christ's help, are deprived of any right knowledge of God. Anyone

men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God. Frequent

But we ever find, that even those who have not been deficient in their zeal for piety, nor in reverence and sobriety in handling the mysteries of God, have by no means agreed among themselves on every point; for God hath never favored his servants with so great a benefit, that they were all endued with a full and perfect knowledge in every thing; and, no doubt, for this end — that he might first keep them humble; and secondly, render them disposed to cultivate brotherly intercourse.

We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.

Not to dwell on this, let us here remember that on the whole subject of religion one rule of modesty and soberness is to be observed, and it is this, in obscure matters not to speak or think, or even long to know, more than the Word of God has delivered.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.

So long as we do not look beyond the earth, we are quite pleased with our own righteousness, wisdom, and virtue; we address ourselves in the most flattering terms, and seem only less than demigods.

For (such is our innate pride) we always seem to ourselves just, and upright, and wise, and holy, until we are convinced, by clear evidence, of our injustice, vileness, folly, and impurity.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

Wherefore we hold that we ought to introduce only those things which we have described above, and which are adapted to the humble character of our profession and the nature of the climate, that the chief thing about our dress maybe not the novelty of the garb, which might give some offence to men of the world, but its honourable simplicity.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

We do not tell God who he is and what he is like; he tells us.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.

In general it's a good idea to avoid people who take themselves too seriously. As individuals, we have only so much seriousness to go round, and people who take themselves very seriously don't have enough seriousness left over to take other people seriously. Instead they tend to look down on them, and are secretly pleased when they get stuff wrong, because they just prove to the too-serious types that they were right not to take them too seriously to begin with.

Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don't know very much at all.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized that I wasn't as clever as I thought

Perhaps it was just a function of realizing, as the years went by, how little he really knew about very much at all.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

Belief in an infallible God does not make one infallible.

We'll teach it that the humblest insect measuring out its miserable days by the pug-wuggery and skull duggery of the old Slug of Time is worth far more than this defecating bubble!

would you rather stand before God as a learned theologian who is full of pride or an unlearned man with a head full of superstition who worships in spirit and in truth?

Every day, no matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.