Quotes about Humility

Convinced, however, we are not, if we look to ourselves only, and not to the Lord also.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, "We did this ourselves.