Quotes about Humility
You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?
- Isaiah 29:16
Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
- Isaiah 32:9
Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
- Isaiah 32:11
On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.
- Isaiah 37:1
saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Isaiah 38:3
He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the streets.
- Isaiah 42:2
Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are only human. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will all be brought to terror and shame.
- Isaiah 44:11
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
- Isaiah 45:9
You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
- Isaiah 47:7
He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
- Isaiah 53:2
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Isaiah 57:15
“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
- Isaiah 58:3