Quotes about Humility
Live simply so that others may simply live.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.
- Stormie Omartian
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
- Wayne Dyer
Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.
- AW Tozer
A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.
- AW Tozer
I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.
- Francis Frangipane
God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.
- Catherine Marshall
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
- Thomas Merton
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
- Thomas Merton
The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.
- J. Oswald Sanders
When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.
- George Whitefield
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
- Bernard of Clairvaux