Quotes about Humility

ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

Lord, thank you for using the foolish to confound the wise and the weak one: to shame the strong. Help us live with the shrewdness of serpents and the innocence of doves. Keep our feet from fatigue, our spirits from despair, and our hands from failing to rise in praise to you. Amen.

It's not always a bad thing to struggle. In fact, if you want to find the church alive, you look at places of struggle. Whenever we have triumphed and dominated, we get sick. Christianity is best when it is humble.

If you find yourself climbing the ladder of success, be careful or else on your way up you might pass Jesus on his way down.

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

To my way of thinking, no one can live in the grandest cathedral on earth, the Rocky Mountains, and not know that there's someone bigger than man in charge of the world.