Quotes About Humility

Quotes about humility from throughout Christian History.

Clement of Alexandria, c. A.D. 190

And it occurs to me to wonder how some dare call themselves perfect and gnostics, with ideas of themselves above the apostle, inflated and boastful, when Paul admitted about himself, "Not that I have already attained, or am already perfect; but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which I am apprehended of Christ. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forth to those that are before, I press toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus." And yet he reckons himself perfect because he has been emancipated from his former life, and strives after the better life, not as perfect in knowledge, but as aspiring after perfection. Therefore also he adds, "As many of us as are perfect are thus minded," manifestly describing perfection as the renunciation of sin, regeneration into the faith of the only perfect One, and forgetting our former sins. (The Instructor I:6)