Humility

“The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.”

“A humble saint is content with that condition which God sees best for him.”

“A good character is the best tombstone. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it.”

“You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.”

“The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.”

“Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.”

“He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.”

“Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants, then pride will be impossible.”

“True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.”

“Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.”

“Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation.”

“The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.”

“God does not need your strength; He has more than enough power of His own! He asks for your weakness.”

“Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice.”

“I feel myself to be a lump of unworthiness, a mass of corruption, and a heap of sin, apart from His almighty love.”

“Humiliation of soul always brings a positive blessing with it. If we empty our hearts of self, God will fill them with his love.”

“May infinite wisdom cure us of the madness of self-confidence.”

“The increase of the kingdom is more to be desired than the growth of a clan.”

“There must be a consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give thee victory.”

“A heart crushed is a fragrant heart.”

“The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.”

“He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.”

“Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.”

“An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.”

“Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.”

“Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.”

“Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.”

“A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility, and holy joy.”

“He who is his own teacher, is sure to have a fool for a master!”

“Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.”

“Pride of gifts, robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.”

“Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.”

“How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? For a beggar to live at court, is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.”

“It is my duty, and I have reason to be humbled for my sin, although it be never so small; but I have no reason to be discouraged under my sin, though it be never so great.”

“I have no name to come to God but in Christ. My own name is abominable to myself.”

“He that is down need fear no fall.”

“There are two things that are suited to humble the soul of men, a due consideration of God, and then of ourselves.”

“We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.”

“Unless we deny ourselves and all our own ideas and opinions, unless we become humble and teachable, we can never receive the gospel.”

“We speak much of God, and talk of Him, His ways and His works; the truth is, we know very little of Him.”

“God forgive me my unthankfulness and unworthiness of so great glory.”

“A true Christian will not hide his sins, but lay them open, the more to abase himself before God.”

“As soon as the heart is broken, under a sense of sin, pride and self-conceit vanish away, and the more broken-hearted that a person is, the less proud.”

“By that which has outwardly appeared, who would think that a few people that were contemptible to the world were actually God’s pleasant portion?”

“You are not worthy of having a piece of bread to put in your mouth, nor a thread to cover your skin.”

“They are likely to hold out best in temptation, who have most grace—and God gives more grace to the humble.”

“Now, I am discontented and murmuring because I am afflicted; but this is why you are afflicted: God would humble you.”

“There is no such way to be rich—as to be poor and low in our own eyes.”

“And of this right, Christ here speaks, when He calls the meek inheritors of the earth.”

“All the monarchs and princes on earth have not that excellency in them that one poor child or servant has that is gracious, and belongs to God.”

“It is not the greatness of the part, but the well acting of it.”

“And David the king came and sat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hither?”

“The crown which the poor in spirit shall wear in heaven, is an honorable crown.”

“Next Moses feels, that his own might is nothing—vain are his counsels—powerless is his arm.”

“The great design God has in afflicting you is to break and humble your heart.”

“A humble soul knows, that if he blesses God under mercies —he has paid his debt; but if he blesses God under crosses —he has made God a debtor.”

“It is the very A B C's of Christianity, that a man should know his right place in the sight of God, and understand his deserts.”

“It is safer to be humble with one talent, than proud with ten; yes, better to be an humble worm, than a proud angel.”

“God always hides saving knowledge from the "wise and prudent." That which we learn by our unaided faculties—puffs up and blinds the mind.”

“Beloved, when God exalts you, remember it is because your Savior was abased.”

“If we will be any thing in ourselves, faith tells us then it is nothing to us; for it only fills them that are empty, and makes them all by grace who are nothing by self.”

“It was not so much for flesh to suffer—but for God to be made flesh—this was the wonder of humility!”

“We must deny our own understandings, and be content to have no more understanding in divine things than we can carry out of God’s book, than we can be taught by God’s word and ordinances.”

“The world saw nothing in Paul but vileness and meanness; Paul saw nothing in the world but the same.”

“In all things let us, with confession of our wants, have an eye unto his fulness, and then we shall find the more of his abundance, when we set not upon these duties in our own strength only.”

“The word notes to us thus much: that God will not dwell with a humble man as a wayfaring man dwells with his relations—a few nights and then away.”

“Daniel keeps humble and holy when he is lifted high, yes, made the second man in the kingdom.”

“This sorrow, humility, and shame are not merely for a wicked life—but for a sinful nature; not only for actual sin—but also for original sin.”

“The rich in themselves are sent 'empty away;' the humble soul is a rich soul, rich in God; and therefore God regards the lowly and resists the proud.”

“My very dear brother, the room of the least of all saints is too great for the like of me.”

“None will claim mercy more of others than those who deserve due severity.”

“What was there in thy former life, but misery, to move God to shew mercy to thee?”

“Indeed, he was the Son of God, but he appeared in abased flesh, in the form of a 'servant.' He was crucified.”

“At best these bodies are a tent--than which creation knows no humbler thing.”

“It is not in our nature to humble ourselves to walk with God; we have an opposition to it and all parts of it: no angels or men can persuade us to it.”

“Some are able to continue in the state they were in before—that is, their former humility, heavenly-mindedness, and holiness remain even after their promotion.”

“Therefore it is not a slight humiliation that will serve the turn, but our hearts must be wrought unto a perfect hatred and leaving of all sins; for if this be not, we are not sufficiently humbled as yet.”

“The boasting in our selves, in regard of our services or sufferings, makes both us, and all that we do or suffer, to be vile and base in the eyes of God and man.”

“To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.”

“And surely, if we have outsinned the devils, it may well put us to the blush.”

“It is prescribed to servants to please their masters well in all things, "not answering again," for that is displeasing: better say nothing than say that which is provoking.”

“The meek man is like a ship that rides at anchor—is moved, but not removed: the storm moves it—the meek man is not a stock or stone under provocation—but does not remove it from its port.”

“What is wanting in knowledge let us make up in affection, and let the gap of difference in judgment be swallowed up with the bowels of mercies and love, and humbleness of mind.”

“If the public good falls, shall I think to enjoy my ease and my peace, my estate and my honour upon good terms?”

“And this, if it lies upon the heart as it should is a sad consideration to humble the proudest heart in the world; to think that thou livest, and God has no glory by thee, though this be the End for which God made the world.”

“And he who will receive the Atonement of the cross as a little child, as a humble disciple at the feet of Jesus, shall know of this doctrine whether it be of God, or whether we speak it of ourselves.”

“And what do you have that you did not receive?” Everything that makes us different from others is received from God.”

“Take heed of being ashamed of Jesus Christ in any service of his; his service in the meanest works of it, is a greater honour to you, then you can be to it.”

“The world thinks, 'Blessed are they on the pinnacle!' But Christ pronounces them blessed, who are in the valley.”

“The Pharisees would never have persecuted him and hated him, if they had seen him to have been such a person as he was; but he veiled his glory that he might suffer.”

“Were you indeed to stand in your own strength, you might fall away.”

“Think to yourself: though they are above me, yet they are in more danger than I am.”

“A humble soul knows, that to bless God in prosperity is the way to increase it; and to bless God in adversity is the way to remove it.”

“It is evident, then, that men may labour to walk with God, and yet stumble and fall, for want of this humbling themselves to the law of his grace.”

“God has his proper place then, and the sinner his—God has the throne, and the sinner is in the dust.”

“Lay up this truth, feed upon this honey-comb. [2.] Secondly, Get this principle rooted upon your hearts, namely, That none ever yet obtained an interest in Christ but unworthy creatures.”

“Let us be content to decrease, that he may increase, as John did; and, like the moon, the nearer we come to this sun, the more we should, yea we shall, wane; it is our glory so to do.”

“We are more than conquerors; that is, triumphers: we live a life of victory; every day is a day of triumph to the meek and quiet soul.”

“Man is but an empty vessel who must obtain his fulfillment from elsewhere—from a source external to himself.”

“He has promised that He will "beautify the meek with salvation;" and if the garments of salvation will not beautify, what will?”

“Admire at this you that have not been guilty of one sin but of millions .”

“This aggravating of our sins will make them more vile unto us, and us more humble in the sight of them.”

“How can a poor sinful worm of the dust like ourselves pardon our sins?”

“We must be content ‘to become fools, that we may be wise,’ 1 Cor. iv. 10.”

“And what a company of most miserable wretches have we in this world?”

“Do not be surprised to find yourself poor, helpless, and vile.”

“When the vessel is empty, it will receive more of the ocean.”

“For our sakes he was despised, and his face more marred than any man’s, and so he had not the honours of this world, though he had the right to all.”

“When the glory of God appears, then all flesh, and all worldly glory, is but as grass, as the flower of the field, as a contemptible thing.”

“To boast of what we have not is folly; to boast of what we have is sacrilege, and we rob God; this is like a man deeply in debt, who boasts of an estate he has borrowed.”

“It should rather humble us the more than puff us up in pride, in regard that there was nothing in us which might deserve anything at God’s hand, 1 Cor. iv. 7; Eph. ii. 9.”

“Kings usually owe more to their births, in which they were mere passives, than to all their after achievements.”

“Whatsoever crook there is in one's lot, it is of God's making.”

“It is He that has posted every one in their relations by His providence.”