It is the person who most knows himself liable to fall that will be most ready to overlook any offences from his fellow men. (Alexander Auld)

The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows, the more lowly he bends his head. (Thomas Guthrie)

‘The truly humble Christian does not inquire into his neighbour’s faults; he takes no pleasure in judging them; he is occupied wholly with his own.’ (Athanasius)

Richard Sibbes ‘was most eminent for that grace which is most worth, yet costs the least to keep it, viz. Christian humility. Of all points of divinity, he most frequently pressed that of Christ’s incarnation; and if the angels desired to pry into that mystery, no wonder if this angelical man had a longing to look therein. A learned divine imputed this good doctor’s great humility to his much meditating on that point of Christ’s humiliation when he took our flesh upon him.’ (Thomas Fuller, Q in Works of Sibbes, I, cxxv)

‘He who thinks favourably of himself, or highly of his own soul, because he has partaken of grace, has not yet begun to lay his foundation right. Consider Jesus: from what height did he, the Son of God, himself God, descend! and to what sufferings! even to the death of the cross; for which humiliation he was exalted to sit at the right hand of the Father.’ (Macarius the Egyptian, AD 301-391)

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own estimation. Not because he is comparing himself with people, but because he is comparing himself with the Lord God. (Charles Spurgeon)

Advice to a Young Minister “It is easy for me to advise you to be humble, and for you to acknowledge the propriety of the advice; but while human nature remains in its present state, there will be almost the same connexion between popularity and pride, as between fire and gunpowder: they cannot meet without an explosion, at least not unless the gunpowder is kept very damp.” (John Newton)

Doth the Christian’s strength lie in God, not in himself? This may for ever keep the Christian humble, when most engaged in duty, most assisted in his Christian course. Remember, Christian, when thou hast thy best suit on, who made it, who paid for it. (William Gurnall)

If I wished to humble anyone, I should question him about his prayers. I know nothing to compare with the topic for its sorrowful confessions. (C.J. Vaughan)

A guest at an official reception once told President Abraham Lincoln that in the man’s home state people said the welfare of the nation depended on God and Abraham Lincoln. “They are half right,” the President humbly responded.