Quotes About Humility

Do not make fun of God, even if He is making fun of you.

He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to show the world that she is a human being.

Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and worked here on earth, fulfilling moment by moment His divine commission and the stern demands of His incarnation. Never was there a word or even a look of complaint.

The women of the Band were learning that if the Lord of Glory took a towel and knelt on the floor to wash the dusty feet of His disciples, then no work, even the relentless and often messy routine of caring for squalling babies, is demeaning. To offer it up to the Lord of Glory transforms it into a holy task.

But you will find yourself disarmed utterly, and your accusing spirit transformed into loving forgiveness the moment you remember that you did, in fact, marry only a sinner, and so did he.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

The Indians had become people to me - they were no longer my field. While I had once declared them to be my equals, I now regarded myself as theirs. Instead of saying, Oh, you are as good as I - let me help you, I now said, I am as poor as you. God help us all.

There is no hope for any of us until we confess our helplessness . Then we are in a position to receive grace

Each time God gives us a hard lesson He desires also to give us Himself. If we open our hands to receive the lesson we open our hearts to receive Him, and with Himself His vision to see the glory in the surrender, whether of small things like self-esteem and reputation, or bigger things like a career and a home.

O que constitui uma "grande obra para Deus"? Por onde ela começa? Sempre com humildade. Não em ser servido, mas em servir. Não na autoatualização, mas na autoentrega.

When we wonder how God will do a thing this may spring from spiritual lust: I must have an explanation! We demand an answer when we ought to pray for a deeper confidence in Him who is the Answer. A simple heart, full of love for God, will soon learn what to do. Questions will be quieted.

Lord, deliver me from the urge to open my mouth when I should shut it. Give me the wisdom to keep silent where silence is wise. Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

Education makes you humble, it doesn't make you proud.

Debemos aceptar con humildad que haya millones de cosas que no entendemos todavía, pero esto no quiere decir que sólo por el hecho de no comprenderlas no existan o no sean realidades.

Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.

There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed.

True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

When we don't understand, like, or agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we cannot understand His wisdom and knowledge

She thought she knew much, but she knew nothing.

What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: 'Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice to meet you.' That's right- I was speaking tot he creator of the universe as though we'd just been introduced at a cocktail party. But we work with what we know in this life, and these are the words I always use at the beginning of a relationship. In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, I've always been a big fan of your work..

What do you love even more than you love your own ego?

Remember that you're nothing but a beginner - even if you've been working on your craft for fifty years. We are all just beginner here, and we shall all die beginners. So let it go.

If you made something and it didn't work out, let it go. Remember that you're nothing but a beginner—even if you've been working on your craft for fifty years. We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners. So let it go. Forget