Quotes on Humility
The lowliness that makes room for grace — dying to self, and taking the lowest place.
God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace unto the humble.
13 quotations from 5 writers, each traced to the exact paragraph it comes from.
Andrew Murray 4
Nothing can be our redemption but the restoration of the lost humility, the original and only true relation of the creature to its God.
The truth is this, pride may die in you or nothing of heaven can live in you.
Pride and self are all of man, till man has all from Christ.
Humility before God is nothing if not proved in humility before men.
Charles H. Spurgeon 1
Let us be humble that we may not need to be humbled, but may be exalted by the grace of God.
John Wesley 2
Every child of man is in a thousand mistakes, and is liable to fresh mistakes every moment.
With regard to the Most High, man and all the concerns of men are nothing, less than nothing, before Him.
Jonathan Edwards 1
The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness.
Thomas à Kempis 5
Humble knowledge of self is a surer path to God than the ardent pursuit of learning.
The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
Do not think yourself better than others lest, perhaps, you be accounted worse before God Who knows what is in man.
Grace is always given to him who is duly grateful, and what is wont to be given the humble will be taken away from the proud.
The whole world will not make him proud whom truth has subjected to itself.