Quotes about Humility
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
- Brennan Manning
Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
- Frederick Buechner
If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.
- St. John Chrysostom
He that deserves nothing should be content with anything.
- Charles Spurgeon
Every Christian has a choice between being humble or being humbled.
- Charles Spurgeon
Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.
- John Milton
That who advances his glory, not their own, Them he himself to glory will advance.
- John Milton
I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am
- John Newton
Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.
- John Ortberg
Somebody once said that the biggest difference between you and God is that God doesn't think he's you. In pain, we get very clear about not being God.
- John Ortberg
It is not bad to pray in a time of crisis. One of God's most amazing attributes is that he is humble enough to accept people when they turn to him in sheer desperation, even when they have been ignoring him for years.
- John Ortberg
God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it—except one. And he was the Messiah.
- John Ortberg