Quotes About Humility

It is a strange thing, being suddenly motherless. It's like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid much mind to before now. Who will teach me how to parent, how to deal with the unkindness of strangers, how to be humble? You already did, I realize.

Science never failed to humble him, just as much as his faith, and he unequivocally believed that the two could exist side by side.

the mercy of their good graces.

I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. "But," she continued, "don't forget where you came from.

It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.

Put ten people together in a Laundromat and chances are you won't be the one who's worst off

Put ten people together in a Laundromat and chances are you won't be the one who's worst off.

The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

In all the universe I'm just a speck of dust, but all I can do is keep trying.

I don't think I'm special. I want you to know that," Odile says sharply. "I don't think I'm better than everybody else.

I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world by the tail was being a dingle berry on one of its ass hairs.

We humans, especially physicians, are notorious for interfering with nature, thinking we know better. Sometimes we do—all too often we don't.

God, through the Law, His alien work, brings man to despair and humility and to a recognition of his need, and through the Gospel, His appropriate work, He gives man faith and the knowledge of His forgiveness.

il filosofo è tanto più bestia quanto più vuol esser dio

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

God is not opposed to pride because it is something only He can possess; God is opposed to pride because pride is unlike Him.

No one's good at everything. And that's how it should be. It gives us a reason to ask for help.

There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

Jesus wasn't seeking His own honor, but rather modeling the Honor Principle to the ones He was sent to.

When we seek to correct the wrong done to us, we set ourselves up as a judge. The

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can't easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

The knowledge of God's Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism.

Some think it is the big things that cause men to stumble. Often it is the minor ones that shake us the most. This shows the futility of self-confidence.