All C. S. LEWIS Quotes about “Humility”

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
“Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.”
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
“Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.”
“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?”
“There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. [â€¦] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[â€¦]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.”
“True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.”
“Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.”
“If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.”
“If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.”
“As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.”
“If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.”
“Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.”
“My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.”

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