Quotes about Humility
No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.
- Thomas a Kempis
What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.
- Max Lucado
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
- Hudson Taylor
A man is powerful on his knees.
- Corrie Ten Boom
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
- AW Tozer
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
- William Temple
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
- Victor Hugo
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
- St. Augustine
Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.
- Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.
- Mother Teresa
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.
- JI Packer