Quotes about Humility
Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
For, just as love embodies the life of all virtues and expresses the inmost substance of all holiness, humility is the precondition and basic presupposition for the genuineness, the beauty, and the truth of all virtue.
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
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.
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
Truly spiritual people live not unto themselves, not for their own glory and happiness, but for the glory of God alone (soli Deogloria).
— Donald Bloesch
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
— Eugene Peterson
Take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. In this life you can fall from any level.
— Rick Joyner
Live simply so others may simply live.
— Mother Teresa
Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.
— Chris Tomlin
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
— Vernon Howard
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.
— Rick Warren
Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus
— Mother Teresa