Quotes about Humility

Suffering has the power to expose what you have been trusting all along. If you lose your hope when your physical body fails, maybe your hope wasn't really in your Savior after all. It was humbling to confess that what I thought was faith was actually self-reliance

When you quit celebrating grace, you begin to forget how much you need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give.

Grace doesn't make it okay for you to live for you. No, grace frees you to experience the joy of living for One greater than you.

It is dangerous to live without your heart being captured by awe of God, because awe of God is quickly replaced by awe of you.

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.