Quotes About Humility

Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

[History is] the very servant of the servants of God, the drudge of all the drudges.

Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

Better to admit where you're not and ask God's help to get you where you need to be.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God's holiness and our sinfulness.

A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.

Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it?

It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.

Never try to fix other people. God does not need to do a bank shot off your lips.

How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.

Complaining is an insult to God.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.

We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.