Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish yourself to be.
– Thomas ‘A Kempis –
Christian Life
June 25, 2013
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself.
– TS Eliot –
June 24, 2013
As health expels disease, light swallows up darkness, and life conquers death, the indwelling Christ through the Spirit is the health, light, and life of the soul.
– Andrew Murray –
from Humility
(chapter: “Humility and Sin”)
June 23, 2013
I use to think that God’s gifts were on shelves – one above another – and the taller we grow, the easier we can reach them. Now I find that God’s gifts are on the shelves – the lower we stoop, the more we get.
– FB Meyer –
June 22, 2013
Should you ask me: “What is the first thing in religion?” I should reply: the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
– Augustine –
June 21, 2013
Absolute, unceasing humility must be the core disposition of every prayer and approach to God as well as every relationship with our fellowmen.
– Andrew Murray –
from Humility
June 20, 2013
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
– Jonathan Edwards –
June 19, 2013
Jesus the Holy One is the humble One: the holiest will always be the humblest. There is none holy but God: we have as much holiness as we have God. And according to what we have of God will be our real humility, because humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all. The holiest will be the humblest.
– Andrew Murray –
June 18, 2013
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare achievement.
– Bernard of Clairvaux –