Humility

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 –

Should you ask me: “What is the first thing in religion?” I should reply: the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

– Augustine –

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

– Jonathan Edwards –

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 –

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 –

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 –

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 –