Quotes about Humility
Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause.
- George Whitefield
Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience.
- Beth Moore
We'll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
- Bob Goff
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
- Livy
The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
- Thomas a Kempis
Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
- Catherine of Siena
How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle?
- Paul David Tripp
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
... humility + humor = humanity.
- Kathie Lee Gifford
And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.
- Walter Brueggemann
he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence
- Oswald Chambers