Quotes about Humility
Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.
- Henry Blackaby
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
- Mother Teresa
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
- Charles Spurgeon
We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.
- St. John Chrysostom
The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.
- Andrew Murray
To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.
- Billy Graham
If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!
- St. Cyprian
To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.
- Kevin DeYoung
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
- DL Moody
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth's appearing.
- Mary Baker Eddy
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
- Teresa of Avila
By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.
- Leonard Ravenhill