Quotes About Humility

Following the 2000 coup, this august house did not agree to forgive the perpetrators but you decided that justice will take its course. You are confronted with a similar decision now. The military humbly requests that you display the same wisdom then to protect our land now.

I know enough to know, that I don't know much

L'homme dit : « Je suis plus intelligent que l'océan. » C'est possible ; c'est même assez vrai ; mais l'océan lui est plus redoutable que lui à l'océan : c'est ce qu'il n'est pas nécessaire de prouver.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

He who seeks only coarse food to eat, water to drink, and bent arm for pillow, will without looking for it find happiness to boot. Any thought of accepting wealth and rank by means that I know to be wrong is as remote from me as the clouds that float above.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has.

Do not be too ready to speak of it [Goodness], lest the doing of it should prove to be beyond your powers.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

Anyway, as I was saying, I don't know about you, Granddad, but I come from a long line of"—her gaze flicked through the open door into the room behind—"fishermen, who taught me that whilst I wasn't ever to think I was better than anyone else, I should always keep in mind that I was just as good.

He look embarrassed. "Twas nothing. Stupid nonsense. I was being heroic." (Kit) "I noticed." (Kate)

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?

Authentic grief is humbling; it causes the ego to face forces that are much greater than it can even imagine and it teaches us how to find gain in loss. With authentic grief, then, our profane wound becomes a sacred wound, permitting us to molt out of the cocoon into a wholly new life. Going through the wound like a gateway, we emerge transformed

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber

Is it a comb, a fan, a torn dress, a curtain, a bed, an empty rice-bin? It hardly seems to matter. The Chinese poet makes a heart-breaking poetry out of these quite as naturally as Keats did out of the song of a nightingale heard in a spring garden. It is rarely dithyrambic, rarely high-pitched: part of its charm is its tranquility, its self-control. And the humblest reads it with as much emotion as the most learned.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Love is not proud. Love has no real name. Love is for life itself, and we have life.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

Willem didn't try to change people, just to serve them.

What I have to say is of no importance. Let me tell you what the Son of God had to say.

We can always know better. The Bible is so deep that it can always make us reflect more about our worldview and our relationship to God. To feel otherwise is to argue that we possess all truth and that there is nothing left for God to teach us. It is to make ourselves into the canon.

Our sitting before the Scripture in subjection means that both humility and transformation are attitudes to which we are committed as God seeks to call us to deepen our relationship to Him.

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

We were created not for earth but for eternity. We were created not to be Liked but to show love. We were created not to draw attention to ourselves but to give glory to God. We were created not to collect followers but to follow Christ.

He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins.