Quotes about Humility
I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He cannot resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him.
— Jim Cymbala
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
— Francis de Sales
We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve.
— Jacques Maritain
We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.
— John Owen
There but for the grace of God goes God.
— Winston Churchill
So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
— Ignatius of Loyola
It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.
— Julian of Norwich
I wish I could say that everything I do is for God's glory but I can't. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus' blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
— Tullian Tchividjian
To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.
— Mother Teresa
Our little things are all big to God's love; our big things are all small to His power.
— Billy Graham
I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!
— Vance Havner