Quotes about Humility
I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.
- Rick Warren
Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.
- David Jeremiah
In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.
- David Platt
The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.
- DL Moody
God will bless us if we walk in humility.
- Gordon Hinckley
When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God is more eager to forgive us than we are to be forgiven.
- James Bryan Smith
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
- Jimmy Carter
I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.
- Jimmy Carter
Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
- John Piper
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
- John Stott