HUMILITY,
FALSE

Too humble is half proud

Hanan J. Ayalti

I am tired of hearing the words, “I can’t.” Jeremiah said, “I am a child;” but the Lord didn’t pat him on the back and say, “Jeremiah, that is very good, I like that in you; your humility is beautiful.” Oh no! God didn’t want any such mock humility. He reproved and rebuked it. I do not like the humility that is too humble to do as it is bid. When my children are too humble to do as they are bid, I pretty soon find a way to make them. I say, “Go and do it!” The Lord wants us to “go and do it.”

Catherine Booth

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has settled on the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself but undoubting about the truth. This has been exactly reversed.

G.K. Chesterton

I am well aware that I am the ‘umblest person going … ‘umble we are, ‘umble we have been, ‘umble we ever shall be.

Charles Dickens, spoken by Uriah Heepin David Copperfield

False humility is to believe that one is unworthy of God’s goodness and does not dare to seek it humbly. True humility lies in seeing one’s own unworthiness, giving up oneself to God, not doubting for a moment that he can perform the greatest results for us and in us.

F. Fénelon