Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Saint Basil

Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.

Saint Basil

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

Saint Francis de Sales

The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.

Saint Francis de Sales

Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence.

Saint Francis de Sales

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

Saint Francis de Sales

Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

Saint Francis de Sales

Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.

Saint Francis de Sales

Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.

Saint Francis de Sales

If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.

Saint Francis de Sales

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

Saint Francis de Sales

We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.

Saint Augustine

No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

Saint Augustine

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Saint Augustine

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.

Saint Augustine

It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

Saint Augustine

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

Saint Augustine

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Saint Augustine

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

Vera Brittain

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

Vance Havner

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Richard Dawkins

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

Richard Dawkins

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.

Robinson Jeffers

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Robin Williams

Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?

Robert Wagner

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

Robert Reich

Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.

Richard Paul Evans

I'm a humble guy, okay?

Richard Paul Evans

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

Richard P. Feynman

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

Richard P. Feynman

We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true".

Richelle Mead

How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwenn’s gift?” “No, but there was a marble bust of Dorian in there, which I figured must have been his kingdom’s ‘humble’ gift.

Richard Baxter

I did nothing that I might not have done better.