Prove yourself humble…
Allow no pride to dwell in you, but prove yourself so humble and lowly that all may walk over you and trample upon you as dust in the streets!
–Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)
Be filled with humility…
He who loves perfection must be filled with humility like a lamp with oil: for lamps are full within and give light without, and their influence makes itself felt in whatever direction they are turned.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Humility matters more…
Self-knowledge is so important that, even if you were raised right up to the heavens, I should like you never to relax your cultivation of it; so long as we are on this earth, nothing matters more to us than humility.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
True humility makes…
True humility makes no pretense of being humble, and scarcely ever utters words of humility.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
One who knows his weakness…
Blessed is the man who knows his weakness. This knowledge becomes for him the foundation and the beginning of his coming unto all good and beautiful things. When a man knows and perceives that he really and in truth is weak… Then, however, he recognizes the greatness of God’s help by comparing it with his own weakness. –Saint Isaac of Syria (Seventh Century)
Make themselves little…
God delights in those who make themselves little and become as little children; He keeps them near His person, and nourishes them with the milk of divine love, in order to prepare them for the sweet wine of holy love, which inebriates those who drink it; but it is a blessed wine, which gives daily more wisdom.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
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