Quotes About Humility

It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

Gracias por haberme hecho ser humano, podías haberme hecho rana o vaso, y habría que verme de rana gorda y cantando, o vaso de vidrio barato. Podías haberme hecho nube de paso o triste tortuga o lagarto y me hiciste poeta y despacio. Gracias por no haberme hecho legionario. Y además gracias por no soltarme de tu mano.

Your pants didn't get smaller, Mommy, I assured her. Your butt got bigger.

We particularly need to listen to older people and children. They all have stories to tell that enrich the mind and the heart. Children simplify things, often with brutal honesty. Older people bring the perspective of their long years on issues. Suffering people also help us understand what are the truly important matters of life. There is something to learn from all people if we are only willing to sit at their feet and humble ourselves enough to ask the right questions.

Keep me, O Lord, from waxing mentally and spiritually dull and stupid. Help me to keep the physical, mental, and spiritual fiber of the athlete, of the man who denies himself daily and takes up his cross and follows Thee. Give me good success in my work, but hide pride from me. Save me from the self-complacency that so frequently accompanies success and prosperity. Save me from the spirit of sloth, of self-indulgence, as physical infirmities and decay creep upon me.6

We must examine with care what are the virtues of which we stand most in need, what are those which are most difficult to win, the sins to which we most often fall, and the most frequent and inevitable occasions of our falling. We must turn to God in complete confidence in the hour of battle, abide strongly in the presence of his divine majesty, worship him humbly, and set before him our woes and our weaknesses. And thus we shall find in him all virtues though we may lack them all.3

Realizing the extent to which people in the past struggled with circumstances that they scarcely understood is perhaps the most important insight flowing from historical study. To understand the past in all its complexity is to acquire historical wisdom and humility and indeed a tragic sense of life. A tragic sense does not mean a sad or pessimistic sense of life; it means a sense of the limitations of life.

Wenn Gott in seiner Rechten alle Wahrheit und in seiner Linken den einzigen immer regen Trieb nach Wahrheit, obschon mit dem Zusatze, mich immer und ewig zu irren, verschlossen hielte und spräche zu mir: wähle! Ich fiele ihm mit Demut in seine Linke und sagte: Vater gib! die reine Wahrheit ist ja doch nur für dich allein!

It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.

I was no longer on my dignity.

Perhaps truth and humility go together; so many lies come from our pride

Didn't he posses in the end the winning cards - the cars of gentleness, humility and trust.

Sometimes in this life you have to understand that we don't need to know everything.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you?

Smart man to admit he's an idiot

It makes me feel young to be wrong so often.

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

The meek might someday inherit the earth but it will be one that doesn't remember them. Lang

The feeling I got was when you're so self-sufficient and self-important and you're walking down the street... be careful that your imaginary wings don't jostle the real angels that are the common people.

The question that wins the world is not, how can we get our "morally superior" way enforced in the world? The question that wins the world, and the question that must define the individual and collective life of kingdom-of-God citizens is, how do we take up the cross for the world? How do we best communicate to others their unsurpassable worth before God? How do we serve and wash the feet of the oppressed and despised?

The question that wins the world, and the question that must define the individual and collective life of kingdom-of-God citizens is, how do we take up the cross for the world? How do we best communicate to others their unsurpassable worth before God? How do we serve and wash the feet of the oppressed and despised?

This is what the kingdom of God looks like. It looks like humility. It looks like grace. It looks like service. It looks like Jesus.

Our fundamental job is to love like God loves, not to pretend that we know what only God knows.