Should you ask me: “What is the first thing in religion?” I should reply: the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
– Augustine –
Christian Life
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 –
June 17, 2013
The more humble a man is in himself, the more obedient toward God, the wiser will he be in all things, and the more shall his soul be at peace.
– Thomas ‘A Kempis –
June 16, 2013
God created the world out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
– Martin Luther –
June 15, 2013
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making its honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
– Teresa of Avila –
June 14, 2013
The only hope of a decreasing self is an increasing Christ.
– FB Meyer –