Quotes about Humility

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else.

Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

It is alright when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.