Quotes About Humility

For we should read God's word not for what we can get out of it, not for what it will do for us, but for what it will teach us to do for our God.

The greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves," He said.8

Christian patriots spend more time washing feet than waving flags.

The lure of power can separate the most resolute of Christians from the true nature of Christian leadership, which is service to others. It's difficult to stand on a pedestal and wash the feet of those below.

How can you insult God?" the Archdeacon asked. "About as much as you can pull his nose. . . . for him to have done it in order to avenge God would have been silly.

No mind was so good that it did not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and blindness and bigotry and folly.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.

T]hat is practicing charity, and what we have to practice today is solidarity. [Applause] We should not draw closer to the people in order to say: "Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you with our science, to demonstrate your errors, your lack of refine­ment, your lack of elementary knowledge." We should go with an investigative zeal and with a humble spirit, to learn from the great source of wisdom that is the people.

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are. —JACQUES-MARIE-LOUIS MONSABRÉ

Foot speed was a profoundly different way of moving through the world than my normal modes of travel. Miles weren't things that blazed dully past. They were long, intimate straggles of weeds and clumps of dirt, blades of grass and flowers that bent in the wind, trees that lumbered and screeched. They were the sound of my breath and my feet hitting the trail one step at a time and the click of my ski pole. The PCT had taught me what a mile was. I was humble before each and every one.

weren't things that blazed dully past. They were long, intimate straggles of weeds and clumps of dirt, blades of grass and flowers that bent in the wind, trees that lumbered and screeched. They were the sound of my breath and my feet hitting the trail one step at a time and the click of my ski pole. The PCT had taught me what a mile was. I was humble before each and every one.

queen. I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world too.

Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity.

The thought of my youthful lack of humility made me nauseous now. I had been an arrogant asshole and, in the midst of that, my mother died.

The PCT had taught me what a mile was. I was humble before each and every one.O

There are so many amazing things in this world... I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world too.

You're generally less humble in that decade than you'll ever be and this lack of humility is oddly mixed with insecurity and uncertainty and fear.

our minds are small, but our hearts are big. Just about every one of us has fucked up at some point or another

Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many

It was only then, when I humbly surrendered, that I was able to do the work I needed to do.