Quotes about Humility

You are most humble and gentle when you think that the person you are ministering to is more like you than unlike you. When you have inserted yourself into another category that tends to make you think you have arrived, it is very easy to be judgmental and impatient.

Change is not found in defending our righteousness, but in admitting our weakness and crying for help.

You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you're more like them than unlike them.

Weakness is not the problem, but my delusion of my strengths is.

If my heart is ever going to be freed of grumbling and ruled by gratitude, I need your grace: grace to remember, grace to see, grace that produces a heart of humble joy.

I understand why many people who call themselves Christians are not excited about grace. If you think your environment is your problem, you won't esteem grace, but once you admit that you're your biggest problem, you will celebrate the grace that rescues you from you.

Tender, heartfelt worship is hard for a person who thinks of himself as having arrived. No one celebrates the presence and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ more than the person who has embraced his desperate and daily need of it.

When someone who knows you points out a sin, a weakness, or a failure, are you thankful?

You'll never celebrate grace as much as you should when you think you're more righteous than you actually are.

God's grace frees you from having to deny your weaknesses.

Perhaps before you start confessing your sin you should first confess your righteousness.

fact is that no one gives grace better than someone who is convinced that he needs it, as well.