Quotes About Humility

Only a humble person can come to know God because the humble person can recognize that there is something more powerful, more complete and more perfect than they are.

And God 'sits in the heavens and laughs' at the proud who pretend to be more than they are.

God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.

God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!

I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

God knows the mess we're in when He calls us. His light shines greater through "cracked pots" than it does through those who have it all together.

If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.

The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.

Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.

God, harden me against myself!

Balding if God's way of showing you are only human... He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears.

God, let me remember all good losers.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

God, deliver me from sullen saints.

I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.

I pray that god answers, maybe I'll ask nicer

It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.

We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God.

I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.