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Quotes About Humility

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.
~ Horace Bushnell
Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.
~ Jack Kerouac
God is more eager to forgive us than we are to be forgiven.
~ James Bryan Smith
I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
~ James Nesbitt
I cried at my son's sports day, for God's sake. I'm a huge baby
~ Jamie Redknapp
And I am a mockery, who was God before.
~ Jan Struther
Anytime you want to lay off the paybacks God, that'd be great.
~ Jeaniene Frost
When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.
~ Jeremy Taylor
God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
~ Jimmy Carter
I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.
~ Jimmy Carter
I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.
~ John F. Kerry
I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.
~ John Hersey
The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.
~ John McCain
Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
~ John Piper
Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.
~ John Shelby Spong
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
~ John Stott
When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward...I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt.
~ Johnny Hunt
Ask God for help. Don't think that you can handle this yourself.
~ Joyce Meyer
It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.
~ Karen Kingsbury
The moment where I realized how little I actually was, was when Dave Bautista picked me off the ground and I still wasn't even at his pec yet. I was like, "Oh my God, this man is massive."
~ Katee Sackhoff
A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.
~ Kevin Baggett
It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke