Quotes About Humility

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

Copernicus took us out of the centre of the solar system; we now need to take ourselves out of the centre of the biosphere."52

Don't hit your posset with a stick mister, it tends to make you cough.

You're short on ears and long on mouth.

Heaven-gates are not so highly arch'dAs princes' palaces; they that enter thereMust go upon their knees.

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.

As one instance of this, be always ready to own any fault you have been in. If you have at any time thought, spoken, or acted wrong, be not backward to acknowledge it. Never dream that this will hurt the cause of God; no, it will further it. Be therefore open and frank when you are taxed with anything; do not seek either to evade or disguise it; but let it appear just as it is, and you will thereby not hinder but adorn the Gospel.

Do not despise or run down any preacher; do not exalt any one above the rest, lest you hurt both him and the cause of God.

For neither love, nor the "unction of the Holy One," makes us infallible: therefore, through unavoidable defect of understanding, we cannot but mistake in many things.

To do good in secret, and shun the world's applause, is the surest testimony of a virtuous heart and self-approving conscience.

Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

The halo that surrounds the head of the saint does not become visible till we know he has paid the rent.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

Be merciful to him who is beneath you, and you will have mercy from Him who is above you. The

I told you it was easy," HARV said. "True, but you say that about everything." "That's because everything is easy for me." "Everything but humility." "No, that's easy, too. I just choose not to practice it.

Because Christopher doesn't need to be living with a woman who thinks she knows everything. Nobody knows everything—they shouldn't think they do.

He disdained to learn from so drab a teacher as Experience.

Explain that good healers didn't stubbornly refuse to acknowledge their limits.

Don't you ever do that to me." "You know you'll never make as much of a fool of yourself as Horatio Augustus. So I won't have to.

Did you ever think...that a seed can't start reaching up to the sun until something in it has gone down first into the earth?...I'm not sure that a man can go far if he hasn't first learned to bow before something bigger than he is.

Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.

Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing.