Quotes about Humility
We want nothing from you that you do without grace," Mrs Whatsit said, "or that you do without understanding.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues and thanked God that he was not like other men.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It's a stage we all go through; it takes a certain amount of living to strike the strange balance between the two errors either of regarding ourselves as unforgivable or as not needing forgiveness.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
What we must look for is God's mercy. God's mercy shown through our own.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We tend, today, to want to have a road map of exactly where we are going. We want to know whether or not we have succeeded in everything we do. It's all right to want to know—we wouldn't be human if we didn't—but we also have to understand that a lot of the time we aren't going to know.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Never go into battle for your ego, Learn to battle for something much greater.
— Mensah Oteh
Humility makes you reach out to others for guidance.
— Mensah Oteh
If you got on your knees to give thanks for the undeserved kindness and mercy in your life, you would be shocked by how rich you truly are.
— Mensah Oteh
If you got on your knees and counted all of the blessings, goodness, grace, favour and kindness in your life, you would find that you would exhaust the whole day and will still have more to share.
— Mensah Oteh
Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.
— St. John Chrysostom
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.
— CS Lewis