Anyone can obtain a
species of outward beauty. If nature does not give it to you then you can buy it
in little boxes. But it is inner beauty that makes a person attractive, that
makes him wanted and desired. This is simply nothing more than gentleness and
humility. - Ray C. Stedman
Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report
would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause. -
George Whitefield
A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his
dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it
is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's
wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to
do for Him. - Jonathan Edwards
The very best of Christians in the world confess with humility the depravity of
their hearts, and I believe that the man who knows himself best is the man who
is most ready to confess this and to humble himself before God. - Charles
Spurgeon
As Christ has taught us, prayer must say, "Your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven" (Matthew 6:10); therefore the people of the Lord in humility are to
lay themselves and their prayers, and all that they have, at the feet of their
God, to be disposed of by him as he in his heavenly wisdom sees best. - John
Bunyan
Don't
imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call
"humble" nowadays: he won't be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who's always
telling you that, of course, he's nobody. Probably all you'll think about him is
that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you
said to him. If you do dislike him, it will be because you feel a bit envious of
anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He won't be thinking about himself at
all. There I must stop. 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're not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed. - C.
S. Lewis
Furthermore the more a man recognizes his own insignificance, the more he fully
and the more clearly he becomes aware to the divine majesty, and the more a man
is low in his own eyes for the sake of God, the truth and justice, the more
precious he is in the eyes of God. - Alfred
The Great
The
true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but
to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what
the real smallness of your greatness is. - Phillips Brooks
The
labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think for yourself whether much of
your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As along as
you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope
to find inward peace? - A. W. Tozer
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that
will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
- Augustine of Hippo
Anyone can obtain a
species of outward beauty. If nature does not give it to you then you can buy it
in little boxes. But it is inner beauty that makes a person attractive, that
makes him wanted and desired. This is simply nothing more than gentleness and
humility. - Ray C. Stedman
Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report
would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause. -
George Whitefield
A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his
dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it
is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's
wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to
do for Him. - Jonathan Edwards
The very best of Christians in the world confess with humility the depravity of
their hearts, and I believe that the man who knows himself best is the man who
is most ready to confess this and to humble himself before God. - Charles
Spurgeon
As Christ has taught us, prayer must say, "Your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven" (Matthew 6:10); therefore the people of the Lord in humility are to
lay themselves and their prayers, and all that they have, at the feet of their
God, to be disposed of by him as he in his heavenly wisdom sees best. - John
Bunyan
Don't
imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call
"humble" nowadays: he won't be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who's always
telling you that, of course, he's nobody. Probably all you'll think about him is
that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you
said to him. If you do dislike him, it will be because you feel a bit envious of
anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He won't be thinking about himself at
all. There I must stop. 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're not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed. - C.
S. Lewis
Furthermore the more a man recognizes his own insignificance, the more he fully
and the more clearly he becomes aware to the divine majesty, and the more a man
is low in his own eyes for the sake of God, the truth and justice, the more
precious he is in the eyes of God. - Alfred
The Great
The
true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but
to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what
the real smallness of your greatness is. - Phillips Brooks
The
labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think for yourself whether much of
your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As along as
you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope
to find inward peace? - A. W. Tozer