Humility-Puritan Thoughts
Humility is the repentance of pride.
Nehemiah Rogers
Humility is both a grace and a vessel to receive
grace.
John Trapp
Pride is a sinner’s torment, but humility is a saint’s
ornament.
William Secker
The best of God’s people have abhorred themselves. Like
the spire of a steeple, we are least at the highest.
Thomas Manton
Many are humbled, but not humble, low, but not lowly.
John Trapp
When the corn is nearly ripe it bows the head and stoops
lower than when it was green. When the people of God are near ripe for heaven,
they grow more humble and self-denying…Paul had one foot in heaven when he
called himself the chiefest of sinners and the least of saints.
John Flavel
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
William Gurnall
Humility doth no more require that a wise man think his
knowledge equal with a fool's, or ignorant man's, than that a sound man take
himself to be sick.
Richard Baxter
By humility I mean not the abjectness of a base mind; but
a prudent care not to over-value ourselves upon any account.
Obadiah Grew
To affect obscurity or submission is base and suspicious;
but that man, whose modesty presents him mean to his own eyes and lowly to
others, is commonly secretly rich in virtue. Give me rather a low fullness than
an empty advancement.
Joseph Hall
A sight of God's glory humbles. The stars vanish when the
sun appears.
Thomas Watson
Humility wrestleth with God, like Jacob, and wins by
yielding.
Thomas Adams
In spiritual graces let us study to be great, and not to
know it.
Thomas Adams
Let us take care to be and to do as we should, and then
for noise and report, let it be good or ill as God will send it.... If we seek
to be in the mouths of men, to dwell in the talk and speech of men, God will
abhor us.... Therefore let us labour to be good in secret. Christians should be
as minerals, rich in the depth of the earth.
Richard Sibbes
Four reasons written in the heart of an humble saint:
(1) When he looks upon another that is a sinner, he
considereth that he has been worse than he.
(2) A humble heart thinks himself to be worse still.
(3) It is God that hath made it and not anything in
himself.
(4) He considereth that the vilest sinner may be, in
God's good time, better than he.
Walter Cradock
Well, Christians, remember this, God hath two strings to
His bow; if your hearts will not lie humble and low under the sense of sin and
misery, He will make them lie low under the lack of some desired mercy.
Thomas Brooks
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter
weather, or storms of affliction.
Samuel Rutherford
We were earth, we are flesh, and we shall be worm's meat.
Henry Smith
As Christ ceased not to be a King because He was like a
servant, nor to be a lion because He was like a lamb, nor to be God because He
was made man, nor to be a judge because He was judged! So a man doth not lose
his honour by humility, but he shall be honoured for his humility.
Henry Smith
If you lay yourself at Christ’s feet He will take you
into His arms.
William Bridge
A humble man hath this advantage of a proud man, he
cannot fall.
Edward Marbury
A humble sinner is in a better condition than a proud
angel.
Thomas Watson
God's choice acquaintances are humble men.
Robert Leighton
