Quotes About Humility

Saint Francis of Assisi once said, "Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

If we think we can turn ourselves into the perfect Christian, we have missed the point of the entire Gospel, and will be making the Christ within us harder to see, not easier. We will be adding more layers and more clutter that one day will simply have to be removed

Francis also did everything in his power to get his people to stay at the bottom or at the edge and never at the top. He didn't even want his friars to be priests/clergy. He said, "You can't preach the gospel if you're part of the structures of power.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

I don't like to do anything that's mean spirited just because I don't find it funny. I'd rather be the jackass than makes fun of somebody else. It just seems too cheap and easy.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

Are imperfections is which make we grate.