Quotes About Humility

It is a most certain truth that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

Reach up (to accept blessings). Bend down (to respect humbly). Reach out (to give freely).

Aspire to a lower level of harm.

We strive to be God's worthy audience.

Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk — you try too hard, friend — drop to your knees and listen, he'll hear you better that way.

DOWN A PEG (OR TWO) Humbled. An admiral flew his personal standard at the highest point of the mast, attached by rope to one of a series of pegs at its base. If a more senior admiral came aboard, the original standard would be taken down a peg or two to make room for the new flag. DRESSING

Job once asked, "Can anyone teach God knowledge?" (Job 21:22). The obvious answer is no; no one can teach

One must reach the point of "not caring two straws about his own status" before he can wish wholly for God's kingdom, not his own, to be established.' Death to ambition as such will be the beginning of new life. Above all, the part of a man which puts success first must be humiliated if a man is ever to be really free.

the secret of God's grace—only the people who don't deserve it actually qualify for it.

You and I will never flow in the anointing of Elisha until we have learned to serve an Elijah.

You will never arrive at a place where you do not have to submit to anyone. The spirit of an armorbearer is the spirit of Christ. It is the heart of a servant.

Always remember this: God will never establish you as an authority until you have first learned to submit to authority.

Matt. 18:1-4; John 15:13; Eph. 6:5,6; Phil. 2:3-9; 1 Thess. 5:12,13; 1 Pet. 5:5; 2:20.

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.

I must dispel vanity with vanity.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

Your sight will be lost. It is not too late. You are humble still, pure. Let go of this fascination with earthly riches. You have so much more than they.

In church, does it ever seem to you a kind of game? Hypocritical. Be humble, they say, yet people come in their best clothes. Give penance, yet as they close their eyes and kneel, they compare who is better dressed, the beauty of someone else's wife, the sway of her hips, they think of anything but prayers.

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good that he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: when you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

Dn 't get mad at a pard who knows more'n you;

By humiliation alone can Saints be made.

I prayed earnestly for this Sister who had caused me so much struggle, but this was not enough for me. I tried to do everything I possibly could for her, and when tempted to answer her sharply, I hastened to give her a friendly smile and talk about something else, for, as it says in The Imitation, "It is better to leave everyone to his own way of thinking than begin an argument." (Imit., III, xliv, 1).

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