Inspirational Quotes on Humility

“True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.”

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

“The surest way to know our gold is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or no, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.”

“Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.”

“Emulation, in the sense of a laudable amoition, is founded on humility, for it implies that we have a low opinion of our present, and think it necessary to advance and make improvement.”

“I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.”

“Humility is something we should constantly pray for, yet never thank God that we have.”

“He that regards self only with horror, is beginning to be the delight of God.”

“The more we learn what humility is, the less we discover of it in ourselves.”

“Would you exert all your powers to attain Divine Union? Use all your strength for the destruction of self.”

“Be so much the enemy of self as you desire to be the friend of God.”

“It is only by the death of self that the soul can enter into Divine Truth, and understand in part what is the light that shineth in darkness.”

“The more the darkness of self-knowledge deepens about us, the more does the divine truth shine in the midst.”

“Ah Lord! who seest the secrets of the heart, Thou knowest if I yet expect anything from myself, or if there be anything which I would refuse to Thee!”

“How rare is it to behold a soul in an absolute abandonment of selfish interests, that it may devote itself to the interests of God!”

“By the alternations of interior union and desertion, God sometimes makes us feel what He is, and sometimes gives us to perceive what we are. He does the latter to make us hate and die to ourselves, but the former to make us love Him, and to exalt us into union.”

“To take and receive all things not in ourselves, but in God, is the true and excellent way of dying to ourselves and living only to God.”

“O monster justly abhorred of God and man! after being humiliated in so many ways, I cannot become humble, and I am so pampered with pride, that when I most endeavor to be humble, I set about my own praises!”

“The harmlessness of the dove consists in not judging another; the wisdom of the serpent in distrusting ourselves.”

“Lord God, I thank thee that thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money to leave behind me.”