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Quotes About Humility

The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don't know about him.
~ R. C. Sproul
There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.
~ Randy Alcorn
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The first thing that your should do when you win an Oscar is thank God. The second thing you should do is forget it. The third thing you should do is call your agent and tell him you need a job.
~ Rod Steiger
Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.
~ Sri Chinmoy
You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
~ St. Catherine of Siena
God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.
~ Derwin L. Gray
God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.
~ Francois Fenelon
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.
~ Frederick Lenz
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
~ Georges Bernanos
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
~ Henri Nouwen
Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.
~ John C. Maxwell
If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.
~ John Calvin
God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.
~ John Keble
Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
~ John Ortberg
If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
~ John Piper
The truth I know for sure is that god is the creator of all things. And to not take ourselves too seriously.
~ Kelis
Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.
~ Dakota Fanning
I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.
~ Mike Tyson
Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.
~ Star Jones
We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer