Quotes about Humility

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

God is awesome; he doesn't need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

We would all worship better, sing better, fellowship better, give better, evangelize better, share better, and behave much better if we were first humbling ourselves, confessing our sins, asking God's Spirit to fill us, and submitting ourselves to Him in prayer.

The lack of humility in today's culture is in part what blinds us to our desperate need to seek God daily in prayer and to walk in repentance.