Quotes about Humility
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
— Publilius Syrus
By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
— Thomas a Kempis
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
— Thomas a Kempis
To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.
— Thomas Merton
God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength
— Charles Spurgeon
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.
— Charles Spurgeon
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.
— Charles Spurgeon
The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
— Francis Chan
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I must dispel vanity with vanity.
— Tertullian
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
— Tertullian
By humiliation alone can Saints be made.
— St. Therese of Lisieux