Quotes about Humility

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).

So where does one begin? With self-crucifixion. In effect, we go to our own funeral and bury the self-will so that God's will can reign supremely in our hearts. Our will has no power to do God's will until it first dies to its own desires and the Holy Spirit brings a fresh power within.

Chesterton says, in essence, that there is a dislocation of humility in our times. We have become more confident in who we are and less in what we believe. Our pride has moved us from the organ of conviction to the organ of ambition, when it is intended to be the other way around. In short, our confidence should be in our message and not in ourselves.

Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.

God alone knows how to humble us without humiliating us and how to exalt us without flattering us. And how he effects this is the grand truth of the Christian message.

true spirituality will never submit to pride.

if you are reading this and you really believe that you're perfect, there's only one solution to that predicament: you need to get married. If you are married, then you need to start listening!

God knows the mess we're in when He calls us. His light shines greater through "cracked pots" than it does through those who have it all together.

Philippians 4:13 does not say we can do anything we want to do because we are strong enough, smart enough, or hardworking enough. No, in fact, it leaves no room at all for human effort or striving of any kind. The secret to being able to do what we need to do is realizing that we cannot do it alone; we can only do it in Christ.