Quotes about Humility

Augustine wrote, "That first way [to truth] is humility; the second way is humility, and the third way is humility." If humility does not precede our wisdom and help, our efforts are meaningless. Paul, it seems, would agree. Life in Christ starts with humility.

Life in the kingdom isn't easy, at least not when we want to share the throne.

Anger looks down from the judge's perch; wisdom comes down from those heights and looks up from below. Humility captures it.

When the only one who has a right to be angry chooses love and service, when He considers the interests of others more important than His own and chooses humility—He changes everything (p. 55).

Humans are needy by design. Will we abandon the myth of independence and seek God?

What is the way out of shame? It is the way of humility, not humiliation. It is the way of being known, not exposed.

Imagine having drug cravings subdued by the joy of knowing and obeying Christ. Imagine having temptations lose their allure because there is more pleasure in walking humbly with our God. Imagine waking up and strategizing how to please the God who loves you rather than where you will get your next drink. This would be freedom. Sound impossible? It isn't.

Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.