Humility of Heart Quotes

“Jesus Christ calls us all into His school to learn, not to work miracles, nor to astonish the world by marvellous enterprises, but to be humble of heart. “Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart.” (Matt. 11:29). He has not called everyone to be doctors, preachers or priests, nor has He bestowed on all the gift of restoring sight to the blind, healing the sick, raising the dead or casting out devils, but to all He has said: “Learn of Me, to be humble of heart,” and to all He has given the power to learn humility of Him.”
― Mary da Bergamo, Humility of Heart

“The mistake lies in our having too high an opinion of what the world calls honour, esteem and fame. For however much the world may praise or honour me, it cannot increase my merit or my virtue one jot; and also if the world vituperates me, it cannot take from me anything that I have or that I am in myself. I shall know vanity from truth by the light of that blessed candle which I shall hold in my hand at the hour of my death. What will it profit me then to have been esteemed and honoured by the whole world, if my conscience convinces me of sin before God?”
― Cajetan Maria da Bergamo, Humility of Heart

“forehead while we recited the prayers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, adding, by his desire, three times the Gloria Patri in honor of Blessed Margaret Mary. The novena ended on the First Friday of March.” The time had arrived when Gemma’s great patience was to be rewarded. She was not to die; God intended to glorify her by the fullness of His most extraordinary gifts before taking her to Himself. But in order that she might be delivered from her frightful sufferings, a great miracle was required. This miracle Our Lord in His mercy and goodness was pleased to perform. At the close of the novena to the Sacred Heart, Gemma sent for her confessor and made her Confession. After Holy Communion, Jesus said to her, “Gemma, wilt thou be cured?” Overcome with emotion, she answered only with her heart: “As Thou wilt, my Jesus.” Gemma was restored to health: her cure was as complete as it was instantaneous. Scarcely had two hours passed when she arose. The relatives and members of the household wept with joy. She now received Holy Communion again daily, for she had a consuming desire for this heavenly Food. Three months after her cure, she received the sacred stigmata. During the four years that she still lived, wonderful mysteries were imparted to her, such as have been imparted only to the greatest saints. Since her death God has glorified her through miracles. She was canonized by Pope Pius XII on May 2, 1940. Aid through the Sacred Heart of Jesus”
― Mary da Bergamo, Humility of Heart

“And since, far from loving self-abasement, you have such a desire to gain the esteem of others, you belong truly to those proud sons of Adam, of whom the Prophet cried: "Why do you love vanity and seek after lying?”
― Mary da Bergamo, Humility Of Heart: Linked to the Bible and Illustrated

“Jesus Christ advises us in His gospel to take the lowest place: "Sit down in the lowest place." (Luke xiv, 10) He does not tell us to sit down in a place in the middle, nor in one of the last, but in the last; that is we ought to have such an opinion of ourselves that we must esteem ourselves inferior to all,”
― Mary da Bergamo, Humility Of Heart: Linked to the Bible and Illustrated

“The Saints were humble, and where humility is there also is tranquillity of mind.”
― Mary da Bergamo, Humility Of Heart: Linked to the Bible and Illustrated

“Do you thank God for the many blessings which you are constantly receiving from Him-----from your very heart, with true humility, believing yourself to be so miserable that you would fall into every sin, and even into Hell itself, if God did not come to your help? "Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in Hell." (Ps. xciii, 17)”
― Mary da Bergamo, Humility Of Heart: Linked to the Bible and Illustrated

“It is especially in the time of temptation that humility is necessary. Every time the devil tempts you to commit some grave sin, he tempts you to revolt against God, and to despise and offend Him.”
― Mary da Bergamo, Humility Of Heart: Linked to the Bible and Illustrated

“Prayer, says St. Augustine, is essentially the resource of him who knows that he is both poor and needy: "Prayer is only for the needy.”
― Mary da Bergamo, Humility Of Heart: Linked to the Bible and Illustrated

“at the tribunal of God there will be no excuse for us for not having possessed humility, because we have been taught that we could obtain it by persevering prayer, and, if we have not used this means to obtain it, it will be our fault that we have not asked God for it, and therefore our fault that we have not obtained it. Our Saviour in His Gospel says: "Ask and you shall receive." (John xvi, 24)”
― Mary da Bergamo, Humility Of Heart: Linked to the Bible and Illustrated

“never praises himself or blames others. The humble man speaks but little, and weighs and measures his words in order not to say more than truth and modesty require, and as his heart is free from vanity, so is his speech. We argue, therefore, that there can be little or no humility in our hearts when there is little or no circumspection in our speech.”
― Cajetan Mary da Bergamo, Humility of Heart