Thoughts on Humility

I began thinking about humility versus pride today because it is something that I struggle with greatly. Here are some things I found while thinking on the subject of humility that are both convicting and encouraging.

"He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will easily pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." ~Augustine

"Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leane.” ~A.W. Tozer

"A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility." ~D. L. Moody

"The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct." ~Andrew Murray

"If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love."
~Amy Carmichael

"I am sure that there are many Christians who will confess that their experience has been very much like my own—that we had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple, as they were of the Master. Such humility is not a thing that will come on its own. It must be made the object of special desire, prayer, faith and practice." ~Andrew Murray

"If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you're not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed." ~C.S. Lewis

"Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... The poorest Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility." ~J. C. Ryle