Quotes About Humility

When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.

We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them."

Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.

Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.

A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us, just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.

There are two main pitfalls on the road to mastery of the art of prayer. If a person gets what he asks for, his humility is in danger. If he fails to get what he asks for, he is apt to lose confidence. Indeed, no matter whether prayer seems to be succeeding or failing, humility and confidence are two virtues which are absolutely essential.

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

Pride, perceiving humility honourable, often borrows her cloak.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.

God made me on a morning when he had nothing else to do.

Epitaph to a waiter: By and by God caught his eye.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

When I was young, I said to God, "God, tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered, "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said, "God, tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said, "Well George, that's more nearly your size." And he told me.

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.