Quotes about Humility

With humility, we pursue God and delight to know Him. We increasingly realize that He is our most valuable treasure, and our hearts sing with gratitude

He told His followers, become a servant of all. To rise up, stoop low. The last shall be first, and the first last.

When we compare ourselves with others, we quickly become consumed with pride or envy, and our passion for Christ quickly fades.

Great leaders often have great pride. To become useful to God, their pride has to be crushed. God can then use the broken pieces to create new, humble people whose consummate abilities are under the leading of the Spirit instead of driven by selfish ambition.

Jesus had chosen to lay aside the trappings of power that were His right and come humble and approachable, a servant. Man saw it as weakness; Jesus did it from strength. He had arrived with nothing to prove but His Father's love.

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

Siddhartha looked down at his arm and brushed away the film of dried dung that had settled on it. More dust flew up into the sunlight. I am just dust, he thought.

In everyday situations, getting out of the way begins by giving up on the ego's fantasies.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

Just because you don't share it on social media, doesn't mean you're not up to big things. Live it and stay low key. Privacy is everything.

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.