Quotes About Humility

The psychologist David Myers has said that the essence of monotheistic belief is: (1) There is a God and (2) it's not me (and it's also not you).6 The secular equivalent is: (1) There is objective truth and (2) I don't know it (and neither do you). The same epistemic humility applies to the rationality that leads to truth. Perfect rationality and objective truth are aspirations that no mortal can ever claim to have attained.

Richard Feynman once wrote, "If you ever hear yourself saying, 'I think I understand this,' that means you don't." Though

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.

I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!

Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.

Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other.

Thats what I love about serving God. In His eyes, there are no little people...because there are no big people. We are all on the same playing field

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.