Quotes about Humility
But Our Lady allowed this trouble to befall me for the good of my soul; without it, vanity might have crept into my heart, whereas now I was humbled, and looked at myself with profound contempt. My God, Thou alone knowest all that I suffered.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
— Samuel Johnson
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
— Samuel Johnson
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
— Samuel Johnson
Our pride must have winter weather to rot it.
— Samuel Rutherford
My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far above me . . . There are windings and to's and fro's in His ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.
— Samuel Rutherford
There is none like Him; I would not exchange one smile of His lovely face with kingdoms.
— Samuel Rutherford
The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
— CS Lewis
Maybe it's time to stop creating God in our image and let Him create you in His.
— Mark Batterson
Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.
— David Jeremiah
Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection
— CS Lewis