Lucis - Musings on Humility

Be modest and circumspect. Regard in silence what cannot be either disproved or comprehended, and humble thyself before the Supreme Being who alone knoweth the truth.
^{Jean Jacques Rousseau}

Humility stems from the inner recognition made in the true Light that being, life, knowledge, wisdom, and power are truly rooted in God, not in the created world.
^{Theologia Germanica}

It is my humility that gives God his divinity and the proof of it is this. God’s peculiar property is giving. But God cannot give if he has nothing to receive his gifts. Since I make myself receptive to his gifts by my humility so I by my humility do make God giver and since giving is God’s own peculiar property I do by my humility give God his property.
^{Meister Eckhart}

God walks with the humble; he reveals himself to the lowly; he gives understanding to the little ones; he discloses his meaning to pure minds, but hides his grace from the curious and proud.
^{Thomas À Kempis}

Justice always follows Him, and is the punisher of those who fall short of the divine law. To that law he who would be happy holds fast, and follows it in all humility and order.
^Plato

All speculation concerning the mysteries of God is a very dangerous thing by which the willing spirit can be trapped. As long as the willing spirit follows the Spirit of God, it has strengths in its resigned humility to see all the wonders of God.
^{Jacob Boehme}

To me it has always appeared best to bow with heartfelt humility to the inscrutable but unerring counsels of Heaven, and to remember that we can only in this life see a small portion of man’s existence, and therefore can form no judgement of the whole.
^{Wilhelm Von Humboldt}

You should practise humility first toward man, and only then toward God. He who despises men has no respect for God.
^Paracelsus

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
^{Thomas Merton}

Reverence for the Eternal trains men to be wise. And to be humble is the way to honor.
^{Proverbs 15:33}

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
^{Thomas More}

The voice of humility is God’s music and the silence of humility is God’s rhetoric.
^{Francis Quarles}

Humility did not cast down the individual, it raised him up. As it obliged him to respect the presence of God in others, so it obliged him to respect the presence of God in himself, to make himself the messenger of God or the path taken by God.
^{Antoine De Saint-Exupéry}

To pay homage to God by every outward and inward act, this is the first and dearest work of humility, the most savory among those of charity, and the most meet among those of righteousness.
^{Jan Van Ruysbroeck}

Thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.”
^{Isaiah 57:15}