The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God.
If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say humility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same - humility.
Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.
It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.
Community is where humility and glory touch.
Humility is my best friend, I've always valued it above all other spiritual qualities.
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.
Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.
Humility is the foundation by which love manifests.
It is always the secure who are humble.
The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew. It is non-confrontational, even respectful, in circumventing the rocks in a stream. It makes room for everything that enters its pools. It accommodates by assuming the shape of any vessel it is poured into. And it is humble, seeking always the lowest level. Yet along with - or rather because of these adaptive, yielding properties, it is ultimately irresistible; it carves canyons out of stone.
In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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