Quotes about Humility

But for the grace of God, that could be me.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

It takes pride to be anxious — I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

True brokenness is a lifestyle - a moment-by-moment lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of my heart and life - not as everyone else thinks it is but as He knows it to be.

Even though most people coming to a church for the first time cannot articulate this verse, they are probably thinking something similar to what James and John said to Jesus, "Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. 'Teacher, ' they said, 'we want you to do for us whatever we ask'" (Mark 10:35 NIV, emphasis added). Each week people show up telling the church, many times, "We want you to do for us whatever we ask".

True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?