Inspirational Quotes on Humility

“Before He furnishes the abundant supply, we must first be made conscious of our emptiness. Before he gives strength, we must be made to feel our weakness. Slow, painfully slow, are we to learn this lesson; and slower still to own our nothingness and take the place of helplessness before the Mighty One.”

“Nothing will keep the heart tender so much as cultivating the spirit of filial awe.”

“Now, as always, God discloses Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.”

“The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.”

“Many of us are tempted to find the key in doing, but the answer is actually found in being. It is vital that we are routinely humbled by the reminder that Christian life is grounded, not in what we can do, but what has been done for us and what we need done to us.”

“If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

“The greatest test of whether the holiness we profess to seek or to attain is truth and life will be whether it produces an increasing humility in us. In man, humility is the one thing needed to allow God's holiness to dwell in him and shine through him. The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is lack of humility. The holiest will be the humblest.”

“We had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple.”

“The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.”

“It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.”

“If pride turned some of the angels into demons, then humility can doubtless make angels out of demons.”

“Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.”

“My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.”

“Humility is the guardian of virtue.”

“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ”

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

“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. ”

“Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? ”

“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. ”

“There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.”