St. Vincent Quotes

The favor of God does not bless self-promotion

I never dwell on what I've personally achieved.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

Be humble, don't have too much pride and think you're too good for anything.

If you request for a little time to fulfill a commitment, you're accused of being arrogant. I repeat, I've achieved nothing to be arrogant about.

The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.

In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.

God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

Mary’s life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me....of what importance is your character to mankind, if you was buried just now. Or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.

Essence of humility is unity.

God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.

The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.

Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.

The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.