Humility

Talks

Quotes

If you feel you have no faults – that makes another one.

Talent is God given – be humble

Fame is man given – be thankful

Conceit is self-given – be careful

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts.  It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. – Christ in His Church (Macmillan) – Williams Temple

Be humble, but have a decent respect for the dignity of your position.  Assume the dignity of your calling and don’t let yourself be overcome by timidity that will crush you down. You have been called to do a work, so assume a position of leadership and you have a right to stand there in the dignity of your calling in command of the situation – and that is perfectly compatible with the greatest degree of humility. – Albert E. Brown

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Jacob 4:10 Seek not to counsel the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand.

There is not limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn’t matter who gets the credit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like to find out how neat a guy is without him telling me.

If you think you’re humble, you’re not. 

Some men have an oblique way of expressing superiority by assuming an attitude of humility. But as a great scientist observed about an aggressively diffident colleague: “He is not great enough to be that modest.”

A grandfather once asked his granddaughter, “Are you still the smartest one in your class?”  She replied, “If I said yes I’d be bragging, if I said no I’d be lying.”

Humility is the fear of God’s judgments; pride is the fear of men’s.

Humble yourself now or be humbled by the Lord when you meet him.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

“The first step in submission is recognizing our own nothingness.  Like Moses said after seeing the burning bush, “Man is nothing, which thing I had never supposed.” (Moses 1:10). That is what this life is all about – not to teach us self-reliance and self-sufficiency, but to bring us to a place of complete humility; to consider ourselves fools before God.” (Harrison, He Did Deliver Me From Bondage, pg. 11)

“We are here on earth for the very purpose of either breaking or softening our hearts in order that they might be turned to God and godliness.  We can either resist the laws of God, in which case our hearts will inevitably be broken, or we can try with all our hearts to live the law and gradually realize that no matter how hard we try, we can’t do it perfectly.  Only after truly internalizing the fact of our own nothingness and powerlessness without God, can we hope to be endowed with the power of God.  Meanwhile, whether we come to a broken heart by sinning, being sinned against or struggling futilely to perfect ourselves, we must all come to a place where we are humble enough to acknowledge that without “Him we are nothing and can never answer the “ends of the law’ ourselves.” (Harrison, He Did Deliver Me From Bondage, pg. 19)