HUMILITY.--The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.--ST. AUGUSTINE.
The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls.--WORTHINGTON.
He who sacrifices a whole offering shall be rewarded for a whole offering; he who offers a burnt-offering shall have the reward of a burnt-offering; but he who offers humility to God and man shall be rewarded with a reward as if he had offered all the sacrifices in the world.--THE TALMUD.
True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.--BURKE.
By humility, and the fear of the Lord, are riches, honor, and life. --PROVERBS 22:4.
"If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say humility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same--humility." Is it not as the steps of degree in the Temple, whereby we descend to the knowledge of ourselves, and ascend to the knowledge of God? Would we attain mercy? humility will help us.--C. SUTTON.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.--MATTHEW 5:5.
Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.--BEECHER.
Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were."--BOVEE.
Humility is the Christian's greatest honor; and the higher men climb, the farther they are from heaven.--BURDER.
The grace which makes every other grace amiable.--ALFRED MERCIER.
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of none but by itself; the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail nor reason.--QUARLES.
The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground. --BISHOP REYNOLDS.
If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much. --LEIGHTON.
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.--FRANKLIN.