Quotes About Humility

I'm a very lucky person. I'm an idiot, and I've shoveled through life rather nicely so far, so I don't feel like I deserve good treatment.

Live your life without attracting attention.

Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

That took less hubris than thinking this was a message from on high.

Would that not be the final humbling of the human condition? That the trees and birds, the fox and the rabbit, the wolf and the deer Ã¢â'¬Â¦ reach a point at which they do not even notice us, as we are transformed.

I also think that human behavior is so mysterious and unpredictable that if you are not humble about it you are bound to be insensitive to a lot of the dilemmas and predicaments that people are facing.

Los pastores deben sacrificar sus aspiraciones personales de grandeza y deshacerse de todo deseo de convertirse en una celebridad cristiana y estar dispuesto (si es necesario) a ministrar en la oscuridad.

We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.

All but a prophetic few must go about God's work in very quiet, very unspectacular ways. And as you labor to know Him, and to know that He knows you; as you invest your time--and your convenience--in quiet, unassuming service, you will indeed find that "He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up" (Matthew 4:6).

Lesson number one from the Lord's vineyard: coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image. So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.

We must be willing to place all that we have--not just our possessions (they may be the easiest things of all to give up), but also our ambition and pride and stubbornness and vanity--we must place it all on the altar of God, kneel there in silent submission, and willingly walk away.

Growing economies are built by billions of actors behaving according to their own interests, coordinated through institutions that no one in particular created. Realizing this requires humility, a trait that is in short supply among would-be dictators, politicians, and bureaucrats, which is precisely why these groups are the proven enemies of prosperity in all times and places.

True power is learning how to put others first and not judge a book by its cover, so to speak.

like to help people, and I like to get involved, but I don't really want to be the star.

I suspect God is more glorified in a humble room of earnest worshipers than a massive production designed to sound "relevant" to the listeners but no longer relevant to God. When the worship of God turns into a "worship experience," we have derailed as the body of Christ.

Teaching by example, radical obedience, justice, mercy, activism, and sacrifice wholly inspires me. I'm at that place where "well done" trumps "well said." When I see kingdom work in the middle of brokenness, when mission transitions from the academic soil of the mind into the sacrificial work of someone's hands, I am utterly affected. Obedience inspires me. Servant leaders inspire me. Humility inspires me. Talking heads dissecting apologetics stopped inspiring me a few years ago.

We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful. We've been invited into a story that begins with humility and ends with glory; never the other way around.

We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

Jesus, may there be less of me and my junk and more of You and Your kingdom." I will reduce, so He can increase.

For Jesus, who lived so lightly on this earth, He didn't even have a place to lay His head. I want so deeply to be like You.