Christian Humility Quotes

• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Humility

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Confidence, Jesus

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.179, Penguin

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• Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

  Louie Giglio

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Humility, Self

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• A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.

  David Wilkerson

  Humble, Thinking, Littles

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Humility, Evil

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.399

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• Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Angel, Pride

  "Manipulus Florum". Book edited by Thomas Hibernicus,

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Sin Of Pride, Long

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

  LeCrae

  Gratitude, Humility, Wealth

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational Life, Philosophical, Humility

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• The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

  Vincent de Paul

  Christian, Powerful, Humility

  "A Year with the Saints" by P. J. Kenedy, (p. 47), 1891.

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• The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

  J. C. Ryle

  Humility, Mark, Conversion

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.190, Editora Dracaena

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Pride, Mind, Devil

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• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Fake People, Humility

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Humility, Conceited

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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

  Mike Bickle

  Humility, Greatness, Kingdoms

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• True humility means total dependence on God for everything.

  T. B. Joshua

  Mean, Humility, Dependence

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• Humility is royalty without a crown.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Humility, Crowns, Stay Humble

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• Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.

  Oswald Chambers

  Water, Heaven, Grace

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.64, Discovery House

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• 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.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Humility, Trying

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• Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Humble, Intelligent

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.112, HarperCollins UK

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• 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.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Humble, Humility, Men

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Humility, Race, Proud

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