Quotes about Humility

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

Perhaps truth and humility go together; so many lies come from our pride

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

The question that wins the world is not, how can we get our "morally superior" way enforced in the world? The question that wins the world, and the question that must define the individual and collective life of kingdom-of-God citizens is, how do we take up the cross for the world? How do we best communicate to others their unsurpassable worth before God? How do we serve and wash the feet of the oppressed and despised?

When we live as though we were lords of our own life, capable of meeting our own needs, we are living in the flesh. When we treat people, possessions, or achievements as though they were the source of our worth and significance rather than God, we are living in the flesh. In fact, insofar as we live as though God were not present, moment-by-moment, and as though this wasn't the most important aspect of any present moment, we are living in the flesh.

This is what the kingdom of God looks like. It looks like humility. It looks like grace. It looks like service. It looks like Jesus.

Our fundamental job is to love like God loves, not to pretend that we know what only God knows.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.