Quotes about Humility
People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.
— Paul Washer
A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.
— DL Moody
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
— John Calvin
We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.
— Paul Washer
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
— Hilaire Belloc
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
— AW Tozer
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
— John Calvin
Six feet of dirt make all men equal.
— Charles Spurgeon
To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.
— AW Tozer
I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.
— DL Moody
I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'
— Andrew Carnegie