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The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in th...more

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Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

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Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing-...more

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When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from th...more

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The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very ofte...more

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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the plea...more

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There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any ...more

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Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person...more

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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

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. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.

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Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them...more

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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, r...more

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We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God’s feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God’s share in it is felt as a tribute...more

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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in ...more

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I call this a Divine Humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to him...more