Quotes about Humility

Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”

This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.

But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”

“For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men.

Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.

Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.

Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!

You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.

All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.