Richard Foster Quotes

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Humility is important.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the antithesis of humility.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.