Quotes About Humility

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

God has done more than I could ask or even imagine on more occasions than I could ever recount. His ways are higher than my ways. My ideas simply cannot compete with his.

I'm pretty positive that if I started singing songs that were for my fame, the God would probably make me tone deaf again. I know why He gave me that voice. I know why He gave me my ears.

The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.

God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.

God sent us here to make mistakes

The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with all your desires.

The more I say about God, the less you'll know about God.

I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that's what I'd be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

None of us are God - just His servants.

When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

God will bless us if we walk in humility.

God can get tiny, if we're not careful.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?