Quotes about Humility

He knows that parents who admit that they are inadequate and run to God make the best parents.

When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy.

It was humbling to admit that I wasn't living the simple life because I was spiritually committed to it. I was living the simple life because I was poor.

Good parenting lives at the intersection of a humble admission of personal powerlessness and a confident rest in the power and grace of God.

It requires powerful mercy for me to become a person who surrenders self-appointed authority to the authority of God.

Suffering confronts us with the fact that life is not about us but about God. It is not about our glory but his.

Let yourself be humbled by how little you know and how few things you are able to do.

Self-righteousness crushes prayer, reducing it to an empty religious recitation spoken by one who sees himself as a grace graduate. Run to Jesus in your poverty and weakness, and know that he is never revolted when you do, but always greets you with arms of grace.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

If you aren't daily admitting to yourself that you are a mess and in daily and rather desperate need for forgiving and transforming grace, and if the evidence around has not caused you to abandon your confidence in your own righteousness, then you are going to give yourself to the work of convincing yourself that you are okay.

As much as we try to make sense of our lives, there are things that we simply aren't able to understand.