225 Quotes About Humility

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself or less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

Loving God - really loving Him - means living out His commands no matter what the cost.

If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay deep foundations of humlilty.

God cannot fix whoever is first not broken.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

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 one way or the other at all.

God walks with the humble; he reveals himself to the lowly; he gives understanding to the little ones; he discloses his meaning to pure minds, but hides his grace from the curious and the proud.

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

They that know God will be humble, and they that know themselves, cannot be proud.

Either humble yourself or God may have to do it for you.

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

One of our troubles is we are not willing to humble ourselves. We are not willing to give up our opinions as to how things should be done.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

The most holy men are always the most humble men; none so humble on earth as those that live highest in heaven.

How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.

He that is down need fear no fall.

All regenerated ones should covet spiritual development.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

The source of humility is the habit of realizing the presence of God.

We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.