Quotes about Modesty

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

I don't think I'm better than anyone else.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we don't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining; they just shine. —D. L. MOODY (1837—1899)

In another letter he says: "A man may be constitutionally meek as the lamb, constitutionally kind as the spaniel, constitutionally cheerful as the lark, and constitutionally modest as the owl; but these things are not sanctification. No sweet, humble, heavenly tempers, no sanctifying graces, are found but from the cross.

Neither strident nor flamboyant, God's servant conducts a ministry that appears almost self-defacing. What a contrast to the arrogant self-advertising of so many hypesters today, both in and out of the church.

For holy conversation to occur, we must at least be in touch with the reality that we could be wrong. Holy conversation needs an appropriate modesty that is the opposite of arrogance.