Quotes about Humility
Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.
- Louie Giglio
God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.
- Mother Teresa
Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.
- Mother Teresa
think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.
- NT Wright
Our sin is what separates us from God, but it's our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the grace He willingly gives to all who come.
- Paul David Tripp
Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.
- Peter Kreeft
Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
- Philip Yancey
People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.
- Rick Warren
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?
- St. Basil
Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.
- Francis de Sales
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
- Henri Nouwen