Inspirational Quotes on Humility

“Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion; I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.”

“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”

“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”

“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.”

“The only shame is to have none.”

“Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.”

“The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. That's the point. It should keep us humbled... It's not our own good works that get us through the gates of Heaven.”

“You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.”

“Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.”

“Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.”

“If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows, then we must starve eternally.”

“Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.”

“'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'”

“So many things-nay every real thing-is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.”

“Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.”

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

“It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by Christ -- a privilege open alone to the childlike, who, with receptivity, guilelessness, and humility, move Godward.”

“Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God.”

“Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.”

“Do not desire to be the principal man in the church. Be lowly. Be humble. The best man in the church is the man who is willing to be a doormat for all to wipe their boots on, the brother who does not mind what happens to him at all, so long as God is glorified.”