2,389 Quotes About Humility

The more unworthy you feel yourself to be, the more evidence have you that nothing but unspeakable love could have led the Lord Jesus to save such a soul as yours. The more demerit you feel, the clearer is the display of the abounding love of God in having chosen you, and called you, and made you an heir of bliss.

As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

People who are easily embarrassed – those who blush too often and too soon – usually end up retreating from excellence.

He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.

He was top-heavy with conceit.

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

One of the ladies asked about that awful Bobby Kennedy, and Goldwater responded by speaking about the attorney general with touching affection. (Mary) McGrory recalled how Jack Kennedy behaved at a similar stage in his campaign: spouting statistics, attacking carefully chosen enemies and puffing all the right friends, quoting dead Greeks, never cracking a joke lest he remind the voters how young he was.