Quotes About Humility

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.

I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.

When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.

Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

Our sin is what separates us from God, but it's our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the grace He willingly gives to all who come.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

Never be too proud to go onto your knees before God.

People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.

Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God.

No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?