Top 1200 Christian Humility Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.

No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.

For every Christian, the proclamation and witnessing of the Gospel are never an isolated act. This is important. For every Christian the proclamation and witnessing of the Gospel are never an isolated or group act, and no evangelizers acts, as Paul VI reminded very well, "on the strength of a personal inspiration, but in union with the mission of the Church and in her name"

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.

Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

As gifts increase in you, let your humility grow, for you must consider that everything is given to you on loan.

As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.

Dispassion and humility lead to spiritual knowledge. Without them no one will see the Lord.

Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna.

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.

When you meet someone who gives you good advice for your own, you must have the humility to listen.

Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.

There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion. This is only a modern invention. For example, Christian mystics were also Christians. They also went to Church and followed Christian laws. Hindu mystics were practicing Hindus; they didn't kill cows and have steak. They follow the Hindu laws and so on and so forth down the line and Sufism is no exception.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

If you have to ask what the judges at Miss Supranational liked about me, I'd say it is my humility.

If I want to leave one thing here after I'm gone, it would be an incredible sense of humility.

If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music doesn't want to mess with me because I'm hip-hop.

Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

What kind of Christian are you? Did you ever lose a job, or lose a night's sleep, or lose a friend for God? If your Christianity never costs you a dollar, never cost you a friend, never cost any tears or broken heart, then can you really say that you love the Lord very much? To be a really good Christian is going to cost you.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

Love is down to earth and it reaches to the highest star; it is the valey of humility and the mopuntaintop of ecstasy.

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

When you are confronted with a level of devastating disease and death, you never lose that sense of unbelievable humility.

Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God’s word.

There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.

About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation.

God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.

The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The difference between their origin is, that the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.

Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.

He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.