Quotes About Humility

Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

It just seems like we --human beings -- know so much, but it's nothing compared to what we don't know.

Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important questions. They all have fickle, highly whimsical minds of their own. Nevertheless. If you're patient, if you don't rush them, when they're ready, they'll smash into you. And don't be surprised if afterward you're speechless and there are cartoon Tweety Birds chirping around your head.

Die moeilikste ding op aarde om te aanvaar, buiten jou eie verganklikheid, is jou eie middelmatigheid.' – WILLEM PRINS (Misverstand)

The difference between you and me, Lord Doctor, is that you believe you are brilliant. I, however, prepare as if I am not.

We are His children, and if we ever got that through our heads thoroughly, understood that completely, we would never do a small thing, we would never say a cross word, we would not use bad language, we would not criticize anybody, we would love everyone the way the Savior loves us.

That dialogue pictures Julius arriving at the gates of heaven on a great military charger and being rejected by St. Peter, who cannot be made to understand how the vicar of Christ could have turned from humility, service, and devoted spiritual life to warfare and diplomacy.

But the epitaph for which he has ever since been remembered was written by Erasmus, in the witty but savage dialogue "Julius Exclusus." That dialogue pictures Julius arriving at the gates of heaven on a great military charger and being rejected by St. Peter, who cannot be made to understand how the vicar of Christ could have turned from humility, service, and devoted spiritual life to warfare and diplomacy.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

When we try to make things go faster, we usually slow things down. When we try to make things easier, we usually make them harder. Don't try to manufacture your own miracles. Don't try to answer your own prayers. Don't try to do God's job for Him. Stay humble. Stay patient. Stay focused.

The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't revolve around us.

The healthiest, holiest, and happiest people on the planet are those who laugh at themselves the most.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

Don't try to manufacture your own miracles. Don't try to answer your own prayers. Don't try to do God's job for Him. Stay humble. Stay patient. Stay focused. Keep circling.

All of us want to do amazing things for God, but that isn't our job; it is God's job.

Humility is how we get out of the way of what God wants to do. And if we stay out of God's way, then there is nothing God cannot do in us and through us.

God often uses us at our point of greatest incompetence.

La distancia más corta entre tú y Dios es la misma que hay entre tus rodillas y el suelo.

What do you do when God's logic doesn't line up with yours? When the will of God doesn't add up? When you think you know better or know more than God?

Humility honors God, and God honors humility.

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

When we apologize and confess to others, we communicate that we do not think we are superior, while we also communicate that there are standards by which we are seeking to live.

After years of brushing up against all kinds of people in the public eye, I've learned that great leaders are first of all great servants—and that great service is modest, understated, in speech and action. Understatement is self-restraint, and self-restraint is hardly a sign of weakness. On the contrary, wisely used, few things carry more power.