Quotes about Humility
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
Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.
— Pope Francis
Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.
— Pope Francis
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
Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.
— NT Wright
The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.
— AW Tozer