knowledge of unworthiness & dependence on God

"Humility consists of having low thoughts of ourselves, founded upon the knowledge of our unworthiness and dependence on God's aid. The sense of the weakness of our understanding, which is the effect of humility, is a temper of soul which prepares it for faith: partly as it puts us on a serious consideration of those things which are revealed to us in the Word; partly as it stops all curious enquiries into those things which are unsearchable, and principally as it entitles to the promise, 'God giveth grace to the humble.'"