Quotes about Humility

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows. Gratitude for mercy given is what motivates mercy extended.

If you take credit as a leader instead of assigning credit to the one who sent you and who alone produces fruit out of your labors, you will praise less, pray less, and plan more.

One of the dark delusions of sin is that it causes us at points to buy into the insane thought that we might be smarter than God.

We should never become achievement satisfied, because there is always more gospel work to do. But we must always remind one another that achievement is a spiritual minefield. Achievement has the power to change us—to change who we think we are and what we think we are capable of doing. Sadly, achievement can turn humble servant leaders into proud, controlling, and unapproachable mini-kings. But there is powerful, right-here, right-now grace for this struggle.

We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

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

I still lack humility. I still tend to make life about my plan, my feelings, my desires, and my expectations. I am still tempted to assess the "good" of a day by whether it pleased me versus whether I pleased God and was loving toward others. I still am tempted to live as if I own my life and still fail to remember that I was bought with a price.

You deal with others with grace when you walk around with the humble realization of how deep your need for grace was and continues to be.

We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

When you think you're righteous, you expect others to be righteous as well, so you become demanding, judgmental, and constantly disappointed.

Humility means that each leader's relationship to other leaders is characterized by an acknowledgment that he deserves none of the recognition, power, or influence that his position affords him.

When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.