Quotes About Humility

the church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.

I shall neither copy their humility, nor disturb their devotion.

It has set up a religion of pomp and revenue, in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.

Authentic Christianity and the world are by definition at odds. For most Americans, Christianity has been watered down and rendered innocuous, like so much fast food. It has become easy, upbeat, convenient, and compatible. It does not require self-sacrifice, discipline, humility, and otherworldly outlook, a zeal for souls, a fear as well as love of God. There is little guilt and no punishment, and the payoff in heaven is virtually certain.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.

The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.

Our sins should humble us, but they must not discourage us from coming to Christ.

Humility was never a loser.

The Nature of True Repentance, Part 1 I shall next show what Gospel repentance is. Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed. For a further amplification, know that repentance is a spiritual medicine made up of six special ingredients: 1. Sight of sin 2. Sorrow for sin 3. Confession of sin 4. Shame for sin 5. Hatred for sin 6. Turning from sin If any one is left out, it loses its virtue.

Oh, Christian, if you are overspread with this fretting leprosy, you carry the man of sin about you, for you set yourself above God and act as if you were wiser than He, and would sassily prescribe to Him what condition is best for you.

all. First, it concerns rich men. You would not think that it would be necessary to tell rich men to be content, whom God has blessed with great possessions, but, instead, persuade them to be humble and thankful. But

This sin cleaves to us as a leprosy. This original pollution makes us guilty before the Lord; and even though we would never commit actual sin, it merits hell. The meditation of this would be a means to pull down our pride. -- Nay, even those who have grace have cause to walk humbly be- cause they have more corruption in them than grace: their dark side is broader than their light.

It is more honour to serve God, than to have kings serve us.

Si has escuchado mucho de Cristo, y todavía no puedes decir con sujeción y humildad, «mi Jesús», no te ofendas si te digo que el diablo puede recitar su credo igual de bien que tú.

A humble saint is content with that condition which God sees is best for him. A proud man complains that he has no more; a humble man wonders that he has so much: "I am not worthy of the least of all your mercies!" (Gen. 32:10).

Better is that temptation which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Who scorns the simple things of life 

A boasting tongue, as sure as fate,    Will trip its owner soon or late.

The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric.

And I, who claim to know so much more, isn't it possible that even I have missed the very spring within the spring? Some say that we will never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.