Quotes about Humility

Gold is not less gold if it is mingled with alloy, nor is light less light if it is faint and dim, nor is grace less grace because it is young and weak. But after every allowance, I cannot see how anyone deserves to be called holy who willfully allows himself to sin and is not humbled and ashamed because of sin. I dare not call anyone holy who makes a habit of willfully neglecting known duties or willfully doing what he knows God has commanded him not to do.

The riper he is for glory, the more, like the ripe corn, he hangs down his head. The brighter and clearer is his light, the more he sees of the shortcomings and infirmities of his own heart. When first converted, he would tell you he saw but little of them compared to what he sees now.

He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.

Many wonderful things in life do not come wrapped in the packages we think they should. God used a carpenter, not a king, to save the world.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

When we feel unworthy in His presence it's because we glimpse His holiness.

If He strips us of all our own resources, we just might learn to lean on Him. And to start praying again.

Jesus said that when we put others ahead of ourselves, the world will see God's love through us.

Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.

If you truly understood the holiness of God, you would have a proper attitude about yourself.

Submission is 'ducking low enough so God can touch your husband.

Humility can't be bought at a bargain price. It's the long working of grace upon grace within the hurts of our hearts.