Quotes About Humility

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

if you want to help others, your little self must go.

There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar.

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

reverie. To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege.

To respect people is one thing; to raise them up on a pedestal merely shows how deep a hole I've dug for myself.... True humility lies in forgiving myself for being so perplexingly human, and forgiving others for pretending they're any less human than I.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory—nothing so expensive as glory.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

He had no wish to obtrude himself on bishops.

Grace knocks us flat, preventing any form of self-congratulation.

You cannot partake of the power of Christ's resurrection unless you are first willing to lay down your own will and desires, and die to all your pride and independence.

if you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room.

Have you ever been guilty of having a condescending attitude about another person's weakness? How can we dare to think we can access the soul-cleansing blood that delivers us from the cesspool of our secret sins, and then look down on another member of Christ's Body in disdain?

There is no limit to the good a man can do, if he doesn?t care who gets the credit.