Quotes About Humility

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

The small prayers of weak and broken people move the heart of God.

If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth's appearing.

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.

Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.