Quotes about Humility

When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you.

That place that I had been most sure that I was right was the place that I was most wrong.

When I ask God to change my actions, that honesty about my own inconsistent behaviors forces me not to be so hard on other believers. Humble acknowledgment of the plank in my own eye gives me more patience with the specks in everyone else's (see Matthew 7:1-5). Instead of pointing the finger at others, let's allow God to examine us.

Serving isn't something we do. A servant is who we're called to be.

Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.

Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases—through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam's donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see. Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.

But ain't it always the way, Birdie, that the easiest faults to find in other people are the ones you got yourself?

A little act of service. Is it possible that all service is worship? The words were still in my head.

It's funny how when you think you've got problems, you usually don't have to look far to find someone who's in a lot worse shape.

All labor is joy," she tells me. "It is not washing dirty floors, but the feet of Jesus, Iola. All we do for others, we do for the One Most High.