Quotes about Humility
Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love.
— Pope Francis
Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.
— St Bonaventure
To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.
— Paul Washer
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
— John Henry Newman
Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.
— Mother Teresa
I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.
— John Newton
Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.
— Charles Spurgeon
So be confident that victory is yours and yet walk humbly each day, relying on God to receive this victory.
— Jon Gordon
A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth.
— Jonathan Edwards
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.
— Jonathan Edwards
What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down?
— Jonathan Edwards
We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so 'tis easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by; thus easy is it for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell. What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down! 2.
— Jonathan Edwards