Quotes About Humility

By experience, we know what it is to plant our faces in the floor and plead for God to accomplish the work that our best efforts in preaching cannot.

The only necessary key to understanding the Bible is to approach it with a humble and contrite heart softened by the Holy Spirit, ready to listen to what God says, and just as ready to obey him. The

to humble the sinner; to exalt the Saviour; to promote holiness.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

The good news can be summarized in this way. You are far worse than you think you are, and you are more loved than you ever imagined you could be. Jesus came to show us both.

The message of the cross is not only that there is nothing you can do to oblige God to accept you, but nothing you need to do. It's all been done. But we have to have the humility to accept it, and luxuriate in it.

God is never in a hurry, but He does mean business. He will finish the work as soon as He can. "But" we say, "I have wasted so much of my life. Can I still be of use?" God wastes nothing, not even our sins. When acknowledged, they humble us and make us more merciful to others in their weakness. We can become more approachable, more useful to God and to others. Indeed, each loss has its own compensation.

Lord With a crooked stick for a cane I'm limping home. Mocked and maligned Stooped and stupid Soiled and shabby I limp toward You. —Ruth Harms Calkin

Self-knowledge is not clarity or transparency or knowing how everything works, self-knowledge is a fiercely attentive form of humility and thankfulness, a sense of the privilege of a particular form of participation, coming to know the way we hold the conversation of life and perhaps, above all, the miracle that there is a particular something rather than an abstracted nothing and we are a very particular part of that particular something.

In the contemplative Christian tradition, to be humiliated is to be returned to the ground of your being.

as Rilke said, 'Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows, by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings.

How can I live so that when someone sees me, they are pointed to Jesus? When I speak, is it the Messiah's truths they hear? How can I live that no power is seen to be mine, no authority, no crown, no glory. It all belongs to him. I am the willing, loving servant, providing hands, feet, voice, eyes, and ears for the Holy Spirit to use." "It is the challenge we all should accept," Alban said slowly. "Once again I am blessed by your words.

Go into all the world and preach the gospel.' " Martha nodded slowly. "So the challenge is to do that without getting in the way of the message." Alban added, "He must increase. I must decrease.

I am not the only parent in the history of the planet to have their asses handed to them by something they could fit in a purse.

We once stood on the shoulders of Giants in humility. We now piggyback on Dwarfs in arrogance.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

Computers think that they are smarter than us. But they're not!

Being a hero, I guess, is a quiet thing.

I would earnestly warn you against trying to find out the reason for and explanation of everything . . . To try and find out the reason for everything is very dangerous and leads to nothing but disappointment and dissatisfaction, unsettling your mind and in the end making you miserable.

Take your ego out of your story.

Without grace, there is no gratitude.

Be grateful for the twists in the road. They teach us humility and grace. And any dancer in this life requires both