Being humble really doesn’t mean that you should turn yourself into a mat for others to step on.

Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed to serve as four-legged guides able to assist in leading humanity back to our first—and lost—home. By the example...

We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate … we should approach the...

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It’s about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

Oh Lord Most High, Creator of the Cosmos, Spinner of Galaxies, Soul of Electromagnetic Waves, Inhaler and Exhaler of Inconceivable Volumes of Vacuum, Spitter of Fire and Rock, Trifler with Millennia — what could we...

Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: “slave for Jesus”.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

College was to teach me that I was one of life’s journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

No amount of pics posted on your web, homepage, blog etc is going to change your devastated image but another humble restarts.

You know, I think it’s important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that’s the right word. Cause the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the one who wants...

When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit,...

In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.

…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

The country inspector’s face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes’ investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome...

You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others.

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others;...

We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of...

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

I was wrong. Let’s make a change.

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

The King of Glory does not reward His servants according to the dignity of their office, but according to the humility and love with which they have exercised it.

To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears,...

I went to Guatemala to help build a school but left wondering what “help” would really look like… I hadn’t prepared myself for how humbled I’d feel, or how hard it would be to find...

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

There is no inconsistency when God raises up those who have fallen prostrate.

Everybody I talk to, the thing they say that impresses them most about Cadillac is his humility. All I ever hear is how he’s never gotten caught up in the notoriety and the status that...

Speech one may regret,Silence no sorrow begets,Humility be born before honour,Soft answer turns wrath’s corner

The ego wants to rule, but the heart will quietly prevail.” -Jennifer Ritchie Payette, co-author, “Modular Career Design

He wrote as a young man that God’s noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

‘I’m sorry’ won’t fix what’s been broken. It can’t reverse time or undo the damage or change anything that happened. But a sincere, humble apology can serve to soften the sting and sometimes do a...

The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility is a grace of the soul that cannot be expressed...

Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium.Those who wish to appear wise,prefer it full.

Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else...

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.

It is not for you to say – you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently forgotten what blood you shed, and what extremities you proceeded to in the...

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the...

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.

There are three keys for your journey. Humility, wisdom, love. Don’t leave without them – they will enrich you all the way. And they will bless those around you.

The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better and while you live life thinking that you’re the best, truth is a...

…goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don’t go anywhere. They don’t accomplish anything.