Humility

“A humble soul thinks better of others than of himself: `let each esteem other better than themselves' (Phil. 2:3). A humble man values others at a higher rate than himself, and the reason is because he can see his own heart better than he can another's. He sees his own corruption and thinks surely it is not so with others; their graces are not so weak as his; their corruptions are not so strong. `Surely', he thinks, `they have better hearts than I.' A humble Christian studies his own infirmities and another's excellences and that makes him put a higher value upon others than himself. `Surely I am more brutish than any man' (Prov. 30:2). And Paul, though he was the chief of the apostles, still calls himself `less than the least of all saints' (Eph. 3:8). “ The Godly Man’s Picture ””

“It is a shame for a man to behave himself irreverently before a king, but a sin to do so before God. And as a king, if wise, is not pleased with an oration made up with unseemly words and gestures, so God takes no pleasure in the sacrifice of fools (Eccl 5:1, 4). It is not long discourses, nor eloquent tongues, that are the things which are pleasing in the ears of the Lord; but a humble, broken, and contrite heart, that is sweet in the nostrils of the heavenly Majesty (Psa 51:17; Isa 57:15). ~ Prayer by John Bunyan”

“Men, for the most part, are not lost enough in their own feeling for a Saviour. A holy despair in ourselves is the ground of true hope. In God the fatherless find mercy (Hos. 14:3); if men were more fatherless, they should feel more God's fatherly affection from heaven, for the God who dwells in the highest heavens dwells likewise in the lowest soul (Isa. 57:15). Christ's sheep are weak sheep, and lacking in something or other; he therefore applies himself to the necessities of every sheep. He seeks that which was lost, and brings again that which was driven out of the way, and binds up that which was broken, and strengthens the weak (Ezek. 34:16). His tenderest care is over the weakest. ~ The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes”

“Think of the guilt of sin, that you may be humbled. Think of the power of sin, that you may seek strength against it.”

“A humble sinner is in a better condition than a proud angel.”

“The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.”

“After conversion we need bruising so that reeds may know themselves to be reeds, and not oaks.”

“Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails.”

“They that know God will be humble, and they that know themselves, cannot be proud.”

“To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.”

“Church greatness consists in being greatly serviceable.”

“He that is down need fear no fall.”

“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.”