Quotes about Humility
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
Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
— Isaiah 58:5
Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,
— Isaiah 58:9
Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
— Isaiah 66:2
“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
— Jeremiah 1:6
This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.
— Jeremiah 9:23
I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
— Jeremiah 10:23
Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
— Jeremiah 10:24
Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.
— Jeremiah 13:15