Quotes About Humility

Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned…. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.

Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Your best relief is to realize you are not a god. Nobody says that they are a god, but many people believe that they have the ability of God to control everything around them. Therefore, they regret that things do not happen in the way that they would like.

The only justification for looking down on anyone, is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

How much greater and more lasting the work of man's hands and mind was than man himself. Looking up at the exquisite tracery of the vaulted roof, listening to the majestic music pealing up to join it, she felt dwarfed and humble, yet raised up in spirit beyond her own little ant hill of living.

Perhaps the most shockingly transcendent thing about the God we worship is that He is pleased to stoop down to us, to draw near, to know us, love us, walk with us, and call us all by name.

There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics. When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?

T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

It is unwise for them to be so very happy, for the gods will feel the need to humble us.

Dear Holy Spirit, there are so many things in Your Word I don't understand. Give me grace not to question but to accept that Your ways and Your thoughts are higher than my ways. Grant me too the power to bless others through my own hands, unworthy though I am. In Jesus's name, amen.

Not keeping a record of wrongs is also a refusal to keep a record of the things you have done right. It is just as dishonoring to God's grace to keep a record of your rights as it is to keep a record of others' wrongs. Why? Because it is a form of self-exaltation. You are implicitly saying, "I told you so," in order to make someone else look bad. It takes spiritual maturity to refrain from saying, "I told you so.

Be absolutely aware that you are self-righteous and that this is the root of your problem.

A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offence' (Prov. 19:11).

Heaven will be filled with people who realize throughout eternity they have no right to be there.

if you are true to the leading of the Holy Spirit, you will have to do things that humble you, make you appear as a wimp, and do things that nobody will admire.

No matter what degree of power may be given us for a moment of need, let no one ever think he or she has arrived and will always have such power and boldness. We are all as weak as baby kittens before people if God does not supply the power. He can give it or withhold it.

If there is anything that will make us blush in heaven, it will be the realization of how much we were loved on this earth-but didn't appreciate it.

I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.