Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

All that is sweet delightful and amiable in this world in the serenity of the air the fineness of seasons the joy of light the melody of sounds the beauty of colors the fragrancy of smells the splendor of precious stones is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.