Quotes About Humility

I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.

Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.

Because we put ourselves in God's place, He put Himself in our place.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.

He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.

William Makepeace Thackeray

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon.

If I ever tried to take credit for what God deserves the credit, He would be displeased with me, and I'm more interested in pleasing Him than pleasing ego or vanity.

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

Lion chasers are humble enough to let God call the shots and brave enough to follow where He leads.

God doesn't desire our worship because He is egocentric. He desires it because we are.

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God.

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.

God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.

Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.

How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?