Quotes About Humility

don't know why they say love means never having to say you're sorry," said Polly suddenly. "I think it means having to say you're sorry A LOT.

There's nothing wrong with being wrong.

The truth is, it is more obedience to submit to God in a low calling than to submit to Him in a higher calling. For it is sheer obedience, mere obedience, that makes you go on in a low calling; but there may be much self-love that makes men go on in a higher calling. For there are riches, credit, and account in the world; and rewards come in by that, which do not in the other.

There is a compound of grace in contentment: there is faith, and there is humility, and love, and there is patience, and there is wisdom, and there is hope; almost all graces are compounded. [...] In one action that you do you may exercise one grace especially, but in contentment you exercise a great many graces at once.

Chapter 1 Prayer Points Pray for President Trump to walk humbly. Pray Proverbs 16:7, Psalm 25:9, Micah 6:8, Colossians 3:12-13, and James 4:10 over him. Pray for godly counsel to be released to President Trump and received by him. Pray Proverbs 19:20-21 over him. A Shocking Visit to the White House In a prophetic dream in early February of 2019, I arrived at the White House in a white limousine.

All had suddenly lost their taste for vainglory and pride, they consigned these vices to the lowest circle of hell and would scarcely have believed even God had He assured them that just days before they themselves had ignominiously flaunted them; they were pious once more, wearing their meanest clothes and holding their old, despised rosaries in their hands, altogether convinced that they had always been like this, and if God Himself was not convinced, it was not for their want of trying.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

Stick to breathing. It's the only thing you're any good at.

shop assistants who think they can sing

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Do not wish to seem very devout nor more humble than need be, lest you seek glory by shunning it. For many, who screen from all men's sight their poverty, charity, and fasting, desire to excite admiration by their very disdain of it, and strangely seek for praise while they profess to keep out of its way.

it is a thing much more worthy of admiration and praise to receive admonition meekly, than to admonish a transgressor boldly.

self-confidence is the worst of teachers—but from the church's most famous writers.

The rude and simple brother must not suppose himself a saint just because he knows nothing; and he who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

Why should I strive to swim against the current, and not rather ask pardon?

omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Every day of our lives, every Christian in this world is benefiting from the wisdom and talents of non-Christians. Let us humble ourselves and learn at Jesus' feet to be thankful for this constant reality.

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

God wants us to walk in obedience—not victory. Obedience is oriented toward God; victory is oriented toward self.

But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.