Quotes about Humility
God uses us in spite of who we are, not because of it.
- Andrew Wommack
I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
- CS Lewis
When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.
- Charles Hodge
The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.
- Alan Redpath
If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
- Timothy Keller
If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.
- Alphonsus Liguori
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.
- Mother Teresa
I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God
- Mother Teresa