Quotes about Humility
If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
- John Piper
Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
- Tullian Tchividjian
We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.
- AW Tozer
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
- Tony Campolo
Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."
- Tullian Tchividjian
God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."
- Vance Havner
Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending.
- Francis Chan
I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
- George Eliot
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
- Hannah More
Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.
- Johannes Tauler
Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.
- John Calvin