Quotes About Humility

The only certain barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it.

The only Barrier to TRUTH is the presumption that you already have it.

sometimes balk at Jesus' strange commands thinking, But if nothing happens I will look so stupid. Here is the heart of the matter: It is not about you. It is about the work of Jesus and the glory of God. His thoughts are always higher than ours and His work is always greater than what we ask or think.

A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal.

I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with humility, is always deeper and more accurate than what the author thought he had in mind.

No, no soy brillante ni la mejor, no soy la mas coherente tampoco. Soy poco, y de lo poco que soy, poco entiendo.

Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life." "How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?" Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled.

Demi tercapainya cita-cita kita, para pemimpin politik tidak boleh lupa bahwa mereka berasal dari rakyat, bukan berada di atas rakyat.

I know I have this judgmental side that I'm often fighting against. But today I recognized the depths of my assumptions about people. What I envision is nothing remotely similar to the reality. Humility hurts. Coming home is disturbing.

It never ceases to amaze me how hard kneeling is - the joints complaining and my rational mind telling me that I'm too old and that God can hear my prayers from the comfort of my chair. Someday my knees may not let me up. Or I'll catch my death from the draft along the floor. The excuses are valid. Yet there is something amazing about kneeling, the humility and greatness of need that well up within me as I find my place there. It is my way to pray.

Maybe faith was having the humility to scream at God and the audacity to get up off the floor.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love

Jesus did not want to be economically vulnerable. He wanted to be poor so that he could make his decisions clearly without any distortion of vision. Because Jesus wanted to see clearly, because he didn't want to be vulnerable, and because he wanted to deal justly and to walk humbly with his God, he was a pauper.

He is not commanding us to demand our rights. The only right that love has is the right to give itself.

andar, andar, ser humilde, sofrer, abalar-se na base, sem esperanças. Sobretudo sem esperanças.

Este libro requirió una libertad tan grande que tuve miedo de darla. Está por encima de mí. Intenté escribirlo humildemente. Yo soy más fuerte que yo. C. L.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

The further I get, the more I regret how little I know…

The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Elena no siente orgullo, siente otra cosa, tampoco pena, ni bronca, siente un sentimiento que no sabe qué nombre tiene, eso que uno siente cuando se descubre tonto.

Pride sullies the noblest character.