Inspirational Quotes on Humility

“Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.”

“We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.”

“I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grow in Christian character the more easily we could reach them. I now find that God's gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that it is not a question of growing taller but of stooping lower.”

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

“I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people. In fact, I have discovered that it pleases Him to hide His manifold wisdom in a variety of people and denominational perspectives. I know that the more I humble myself to others, the broader my understanding of God has actually become.”

“Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.”

“Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.”

“The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.”

“Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.”

“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.”

“Whoever will labor to get rid of self, to deny himself according to the instructions of Christ, strikes at once at the root of every evil, and finds the germ of every good.”

“Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.”

“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!”

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”

“Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.”

“With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.”

“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.”

“If I could say I am a better man than when I began life in Christ, it would be only because I see more of my own vileness now than I did years ago.”

“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.”

“It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.”