Quotes about Humility
How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
- John Henry Newman
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.
- Kathie Lee Gifford
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
- Frederick Buechner
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
- William Temple
Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.
- CS Lewis
The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.
- Timothy Keller
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
- Mother Teresa
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
- Will Rogers
If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know who you are.
- Mother Teresa
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Proverbs 26:12