Quotes about Modesty

Art cannot be excused from following God's law, and art disgraces itself by seeking that freedom. Anything that cannot be put into an image or onto a canvas without demanding the sacrifice of modesty or injuring shame must simply be eschewed. Art is not autonomous. Art is one of the more refined human life expressions, and all these life expressions are organically related and stand continuously under God's ordinance.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).

We are wise to use moderation in all things, meaning to allow ourselves just enough but not too much of anything. This helps us live balanced lives and keeps the doors of our lives closed to the enemy.

We must be brought to a place where, naturally gifted though we may be, we dare not speak except in conscious and continual dependence on Him.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.