Quotes About Humility

For Lewis, praise is not only a natural part of life, but also one of the most important traits of a healthy mind. He observes, "The humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, minds praised most, while the cranks, misfits and malcontents praised least." He sums it up this way: "Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible.

It's just as I thought, she said. I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?

I may be clever, she thought, quite sadly, but I'm not in the least kind or sympathetic.

Mallard, can you make nets? I made the best nets in Shelling, Duck said. Nothing will ever make Duck modest, but he does make good nets.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

As I said, wear flats. No point in injuring them with heels while they're abasing themselves.

I will meet idiots today, went one version of her after-waking meditation, and one of them will probably be me. Iau Hau'hai, Queen of Life and of Making Things Work, grant me of Your courtesy the courage to shred that idiot's ears when I meet her, and then get on with work…for being right is nothing next to having things be right…

But I am not quite Jane Austen yet and there are limits to what I can stand.

I thought what a good man he is, yet never annoyingly holy. And it struck me for the first time that if such a clever, highly educated man can believe in religion, it is almost impudent of an ignorant person like me to feel bored and superior about it.

i do not see why men should be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatsit

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

We believe in letting our light shine, but not shining it in the eyes of other people.

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

I am willing to sound dumb. I am willing to be wrong. I am willing to be passionate about something that isn't perceived as cool. I am willing to express a theory. I am willing to admit I'm afraid. I'm willing to contradict something I've said before. I'm willing to have a knee-jerk reaction, even a wrong one. I'm willing to apologize. I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can't accept their imperfections can't accept grace either.

she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

For a moment sitting there above the city, i imagined life outside of narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. I wondered how it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere i go being reminded of myself.

a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

I want to be with people who are humble and hungry, have healthy relationships, and are working to create new and better realities in the world.

I love to give charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

The entire world is falling apart because nobody will admit they are wrong.

Victor Frankl whispered in my ear all the same. He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.