Quotes about Humility
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
A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
— George Muller
God asks little, but He gives much.
— St. John Chrysostom
They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.
— John Calvin
I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
— Abraham Lincoln
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
— Thomas Watson, Jr.
Colossians 1:16 tells us that everything was created FOR God... don't we live instead as though God is created for US, to do OUR bidding, to bless US, and to take care of OUR loved ones?
— Francis Chan
God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.
— Pope Benedict XVI