Quotes about Humility

On the other hand, every virtue and every good deed turns worthless if pride creeps into it - which happens whenever in some fashion we glory in our goodness.

Truly spiritual people live not unto themselves, not for their own glory and happiness, but for the glory of God alone (soli Deogloria).

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. In this life you can fall from any level.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.

Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus

The truth is, it is more obedience to submit to God in a low calling than to submit to Him in a higher calling. For it is sheer obedience, mere obedience, that makes you go on in a low calling; but there may be much self-love that makes men go on in a higher calling. For there are riches, credit, and account in the world; and rewards come in by that, which do not in the other.

There is a compound of grace in contentment: there is faith, and there is humility, and love, and there is patience, and there is wisdom, and there is hope; almost all graces are compounded. [...] In one action that you do you may exercise one grace especially, but in contentment you exercise a great many graces at once.