Humility Quotes
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
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In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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It is in vain to gather virtues without humility; for the Spirit of God delighteth to dwell in the hearts of the humble.
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It is the witness still of excellence to put a strange face on its own perfection.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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Should you ask me, What is the first thing in religion? I should reply, The first, second, and third thing therein - nay, all - is humility.
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The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
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The casting down of our spirits in true humility is but like throwing a ball to the ground, which makes it rebound the higher toward heaven.
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The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading, and exalt without inflating him.
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The street is full of humiliations to the proud.
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The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
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There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.
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Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lowlier droop their boughs.
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True dignity abides with him only, who, in the silent hour of inward thought, can still suspect, and still revere himself, in lowliness of heart.
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True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
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True humility makes way for Christ, and throws the soul at his feet.
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Truly, this world can get on without us, if we would but think so.
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