Quotes About Humility

as thou hast given me a repentance, not to be repented of, so give me, O Lord, a fear, of which I may not be afraid.

Church is a place where I can say, unashamedly, I don't need to sin. I need another sinner.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults," said Pascal, "but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognize them.

I can only advance in the kingdom if I become like that woman: trembling, humbled, without excuse, my palms open to receive God's grace.

From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.

Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.

We are not ordered by God to judge each other. We are not even ordered by him to consider another person's sin. We are ordered by God to let Him consider it, to let Him be judge.

The more that I learn, the more sure I am that I have very much to learn...

This is God's victory: not mine.

For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within?

Submission and humility will not protect you from the injustices of this war. Nothing can. But clarity, and solidarity in action, will allow you to fight back - and to keep sane, no matter what happens.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

And Agathon said, It is probable, Socrates, that I knew nothing of what I had said. And yet spoke you beautifully, Agathon, he said.

Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

I am smart because I know I nothing.

Would he not say with Homer,. Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their ...

I am better off than he is,—for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

Behold, he said, the wisdom of Socrates; he refuses to teach himself, and goes about learning of others, to whom he never even says Thank you.