Quotes About Humility

Once you become a follower of Christ, your life isn't about you anymore; it's about Jesus. When you realize this truth, you will spend much less time trying to make sure others think well of you. Your first thought will be, I need Jesus, so I am going to praise and worship Him as my first act of the day. It won't be, How do I promote myself? No, it will be, How can I glorify Jesus and lift Him up so that others will see Him? I will only be visible in the background.

As soon as I humbled myself and submitted to the Lord, He exposed the lies the Devil had told me and evaporated them in the light of His truth. Through my bitterness and unresolved anger, I had allowed the Devil to show me my wife through his evil eyes.

The answer to pride is repentance. You must stop viewing yourself as superior to your spouse and others. Pride justifies dominance because it truly believes it is superior and worthy of control. Pride is offended at the thought that others cannot recognize our greatness and just be thankful that we are in their lives to help them make the right choices.

Humility must replace pride as we lower ourselves and exalt our spouses until the playing field is level. Humility is the atmosphere where great marriages happen.

Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason

It's what you learn after you know it all that's important.

The highest level of Christianity is total humility, total humility means not choosing the best, but letting the best chose you

So a person who is truly humble recognizes both his capabilities and his limitations.

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I was born gifted. I can speak of my gifts with little or no modesty, but with tremendous gratitude, precisely because they are gifts, and not things which I created, or actions about which I might be proud.

My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy

I've got my Replogle globe, because you've got to keep a world view, you can't just live like you're the only person on the planet who matters

During the day, if you are invited to share your spiritual practice with anyone, remember that humility, non-judgment and respect for other's points of view are the best measure of spiritual attainment.

The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Humility is not a false rejection of God's gifts. To exaggerate the gifts we have by denying them may be as close to narcissism as we can get in life. No, humility is the admission of God's gifts to me and the acknowledgment that I have been given them for others. Humility is the total continuing surrender to God's power in my life and in the lives of others.

nothing is more insidious than spiritual pride; nothing is more impervious to identification. No, the monastic mind0set says, spiritual development is not an event. Spiritual development is a process of continuing conversion. "What do you do in the monastery?" an ancient tale asks. "Oh, we fall and we get up. We fall and we get up," the old monastic answers. In monastic spirituality, we never arrive; we are always arriving.

Humility is reality to the full.

Humility does not necessarily require me to agree and comply with everyone else's position, but it does demand that I be willing to understand and respect the many sides of every issue.

Knowledge of God and knowlegde of self give birth to humility.

Silence is a frightening thing. Silences leaves us at the mercy of the noise within us. We hear the fears that need to be faced. We hear, then, the angers that need to be cooled. We hear the emptiness that needs to be filled. We hear the cries for humility and reconciliation and centeredness. We hear ambition and arrogance and attitudes of uncaring awash in the shallows of the soul. Silence demands answers. Silence invites us to depth. Silence heals what hoarding and running will not touch.

In the end, I learned that the practice of Not-Knowing is the very ground of altruism, because it opens us up to a much wider horizon than our preconceptions could ever afford us and can let in connection and tenderness.

Iris Murdoch defined humility as a "selfless respect for reality.

I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself; that should be a secret they must find out .

none of us make it through life without committing a faux pas that requires a serious, heartfelt, breast-beating apology. By