Quotes About Humility

Don't feel totally, personally, irrevocably responsible for everything. That's my job. Signed, God.

We don't have to do great things to make a difference. We can make a great difference by doing small things graciously.

I think you could say I came to the end of myself. I really did want a show all my own, and he had to hammer me pretty hard to make me see that it was all his. We don't like relinquishing the power we never had anyway, even though running the show ourselves never works. I surrendered everything to him. What did I have to lose?

I believe if I were charged with having a goal, it would be to live without fretting—to live more fully in the moment not always huffing about as I've done in recent years . . . to live humbly—and appreciatively—with whatever God furnishes.

I jumped right to the heart of the matter and preached the taproot of sin, which is found in the middle of the word, itself—I! I want this, I want that, and I want it right now. I want to run things, I want to call the shots, I want be in charge. . .

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it.

Maybe you done stepped aroun' th' Lord an' tryin' to lead th' way.

Wilderness is good, it gives me perspective. I get small again, the ego deflates.

Then he turned and went home to the yellow house where he had been given everything and more, none of it especially deserved.

If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?" I stared at her. "Other people?

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

A starving man learns to respect the hand that feeds him, the one who cares for his most primal needs.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

Remember, you must never use your position to lord it over the heathen. Instead you must humble yourself and earn their respect though your own quiet faith and the power of the Holy Spirit. The missionary must seek nothing for himself, no seat of honor or hope of fame. Like the cabhorse in London, each of you must wear blinkers that blind you to every danger and to every snare and conceit. You must be content to suffer, to die, and to be forgotten. -Count Zinzendorf

He never considered himself anything special. He was just a man who tried to honor God and help people in need. In the end, achieving those two simple goals made him a very special person to countless people around the world.

I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble.

One of the worst mistakes you can make as a gardener is to think you're in charge.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even our little corner of it.

Virtue can exist outside of faith, but it walks on shaky legs, and despite the example set by Prince Albert and our Queen, I know that privilege, rank, and wealth sleep fitfully in the same bed with honesty, humility, and faith.

But Mari, I just don't think I can justify a show-offish wedding. I've never been that sort of girl. I'm the 'Let's go to a third-world country and take care of orphans' kind of girl, you know?

But you can't beat yourself up or compare yourself to others. Remember, the Bible says that the first will be last and the last will be first.