We can practice humility…

Humility, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Spiritual (life), Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)

These are the few ways we can practice humility:
  • To speak as little as possible of one’s self.
  • To mind one’s own business.
  • Not to want to manage other people’s affairs.
  • To avoid curiosity.
  • To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.
  • To pass over the mistakes of others.
  • To accept insults and injuries.
  • To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.
  • To be kind and gentle even under provocation.
  • Never to stand on one’s dignity.
  • To choose always the hardest.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)

We must not count…

Gregory the Great (c. 540-604), Humility, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic

We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow. Nobody must rejoice in the security of their own good deeds. As long as we are still experiencing the uncertainties of this life, we do not know what end may follow…we must not trust in our own virtues.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)

God is pleased…

Humility, John of the Cross (1542-1591), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic

God is more pleased by one work, however small, done secretly, without desire that it be known, than a thousand done with the desire that people know of them. Those who work for God with purest love not only care nothing about whether others see their works, but do not even seek that God himself know of them.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)