Quotes About Humility

I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I'm not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee!

To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.

"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"

How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes.

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

Don't be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you.

To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.

My arms are too short to box with God.