Quotes about Humility

I still think and talk about what I think God is like, but I've hopefully learned (feel free to keep me honest here, people) that being right and winning isn't the endgame here. Loving as God loves is.

Aligning faith in God and certainty about what we believe and needing to be right in order to maintain a healthy faith—these do not make for a healthy faith in God. In a nutshell, that is the problem. And that is what I mean by the "sin of certainty.

But at least I didn't do any harm. Along the way I came to see more and more that being right about God and making sure everyone else agreed with what I knew might not be the most important thing I could do in God's eyes.

Humility, love, and kindness are our grand acts of faithfulness and how we show that we are all in. "No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us" (1 John 4:12). Loving each other is the closest we get to seeing God.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

that I will not accept even a thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD,

But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.

His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”