Quotes About Humility

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe.

Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.

Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies.

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.