Quotes about Humility

The way to begin to celebrate the grace that God so freely gives you every day is by admitting how much you need it.

It is humbling to admit, but I have had to face the fact that the greatest danger to my ministry is me!

It is only when we really do believe that life is bigger than us, that there is something more important than our wants, needs, and feelings, and that we have been given life and breath for the purposes, plans, and praise of another, that we will be willing to forgive.

It is humbling, but it is important to remember that it is only ever the sin inside us that hooks us to the sin outside of us. So what we need most is not a change of location or relationship, but a fundamental rescue of heart, and that is exactly what God's grace in the person of the Holy Spirit provides for us.

The purpose of God's grace is not to make your little kingdom of one work better.

You cannot ask for forgiveness without acknowledging that there is something in life that is more important than the progress of your own kingdom.

Every leader is a package of God-given gifts and God-assigned limits. It is dangerous to focus on the one without humbly remembering the other.

If you have been freed from needing success and acclaim to feel good about yourself, you know grace has visited you.

None of us is yet a grace graduate, but we're satisfied. We all give evidence that we still need to grow, but we're satisfied.

This means that my biggest, ongoing problem as a dad is not my children, it's me.

Good parenting, which does what God intends it to do, begins with this radical and humbling recognition that our children don't actually belong to us. Rather, every child in every home, everywhere on the globe, belongs to the One who created him or her. Children are God's possession (see Ps. 127:3) for his purpose.

Physical suffering exposes the delusion of personal autonomy and self-sufficiency