Browsing Topic Best Christian Humility Quotes

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

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.

Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it’s the complete anti-God state of mind.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he accepts slander as truth; he does not attempt to persuade men that he is calumniated, but he begs forgiveness.

We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with a sense of proportion and Christian humility before the enormous complexity of the world in which it has been given us to live.

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.

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

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty’s crown.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

True humility means total dependence on God for everything.

The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.

…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

Humility is royalty without a crown.