Quotes about Humility

Because he refused to take himself seriously and decided to take God seriously, Barth burdened neither himself nor those around him with the gloomy, heavy seriousness of ambition or pride or sin or self-righteousness. Instead, the lifting up of hands, the brightness of blessing.

The Christian life is not about leadership but "followership," not about becoming more and more but less and less.

Don't curse God; and don't damn your leaders.

Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.

God did not become a servant so that we could order him around but so that we could join him in a redemptive life.

Those who parade the rhetoric of liberation but scorn the wisdom of service do not lead people into the glorious liberty of the children of God but into a cramped and covetous squalor.

God-the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily--open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

The Latin words humus , soil/earth, and homo , human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.

Remind yourself that other people's jobs aren't so simple.

We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God's blessed. I tell you that God doesn't love us any more than He does the Russians.