Quotes about Humility

A humble mind enables us to take a back seat and wait for God to move us to the front.

And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

In his great act of humility and washing, he broke with all the models of humanity that are visible in our own time and place: the rat race of productivity, the fear for survival, the frenzy of accumulation, and the deathly sense of self-sufficiency.

requires both the outrageousness of God and the daily work of decreasing so that Jesus and God's vision of peace may increase.

Peace requires the capacity to forgive. Peace requires a readiness to share generously. Peace requires the violation of strict class stratification in society. Peace requires attentiveness to the vulnerable and the unproductive. Peace requires humility in the face of exaltation, being last among those who insist on being first and denying self in the interest of the neighbor. These are all practices that mark his presence in his society.

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him." -

We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.