Quotes About Humility

Human pride and self-reliance must be broken for salvation to break in.

humility and compassion are among the chief fruits of bearing such an ongoing condition of weakness in patience and in faith.

My mortifications consisted in breaking my will, always so ready to impose itself on others, in holding back a reply, in rendering little services without any recognition, in not leaning my back against a support when seated, etc., etc. It was through the practice of these nothings that I prepared myself to become the fiancée of Jesus.18

You will please him more readily if you live within the limits proper to you, and do not set your sights at things beyond you (Sir. 3:22).

our patience has to become a universal submission to the will of God, in humility.

You test the virtue of patience in yourself when your neighbors insult you. Your humility is tested by the proud, your faith by the unfaithful, your hope by the person who has no hope. Your justice is tried by the unjust, your compassion by the cruel, and your gentleness and kindness by the wrathful. Your neighbors are the channel through which all your virtues are tested and come to birth, just as the evil give birth to all their vices through their neighbors.72

Realistically, Francis says, there will probably be falls along the way, but God can use even these to deepen our humility. Imperfections and venial sins cannot deprive us of spiritual life; it is lost only by mortal sin. Fortunately for us, in this war we are always victorious provided that we are willing to fight.27

And so when you perceive that you are being humiliated, look on it as the sign of a sure guarantee that grace is on the way

Francis says we should make reasonable efforts to refute lies that are being told about us, but if our efforts are not effective, we should simply go on with our lives trusting in God to care for us, continuing to humble ourselves. If He permits our reputation to be taken away from us it will either be "to give us a better one or to make us profit by holy humility, of which a single ounce is preferable to a thousand pounds of honor.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

To be simple is to be great

The greatest man in history was the poorest

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

Treat everyone you meet as if they are God in drag.

Hay un momento en que el astrónomo, debajo del gran telescopio, se convierte en microbio del microscopio de la luna que se asoma a observarle

A Man of wisdom is one who discusses everything other than his achievements, a Fool speaks only of his achievements"

Nothing is ever wrong if you learn out of it and nothing is right if it makes you arrogant. Watch On!"

Taking pride in your own worthiness makes you unworthy!

Only a fool is always certain,

Yes, and for all his bluster about making D'ni great again, he had forgotten precisely what it was that had made the D'ni extraordinary. The reason why their empire had lasted for so long. It was not their power, nor the fact that they had once ruled a million worlds, it was their restraint, their astonishing humility.