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Quotes About Humility

Lord, forgive me. You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy. Help me. Open my heart and mind so that I will love her as you have loved me.
~ Francine Rivers
All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet.
~ Francine Rivers
He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness...
~ Francine Rivers
infant's face and brushed the tiny palm. When the baby's fingers closed around his finger, his heart raced even faster. Never had he felt such encompassing joy—and spreading terror. Am I to be his earthly father, Lord? A simple carpenter? Surely your Son deserves better than I! Joseph looked around at the dark walls of the shepherds
~ Francine Rivers
No sean egoístas; no traten de impresionar a nadie. Sean humildes, es decir, considerando a los demás como mejores que ustedes. FILIPENSES 2:3
~ Francine Rivers
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself. PHILIPPIANS 2 : 3
~ Francine Rivers
The more she tried to live a perfect life for God, the more she recognized her failings.
~ Francine Rivers
Listen to me, friend. Lay aside your pride or it will entangle you in sin. Anger is your worst enemy.
~ Francine Rivers
Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. 1 PETER 4 : 8 So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and in his good time he will honor you. Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about what happens to you. 1 PETER 5 : 6 – 7 What covers sin?
~ Francine Rivers
Hasn't God always chosen things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise? - Mary
~ Francine Rivers
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
~ Francis Bacon
The strength of humility is that it builds a spiritual defense around your soul, prohibiting strife, competition, and many of life's irritations from stealing your peace.
~ Francis Frangipane
Otra vez me vino a los labios una especie de disculpa. Ante las demostraciones de suficiencia absoluta casi siempre me rindo, anonadado.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
A person of influence demonstrates character, strength, humility, integrity and vision that motivate and inspire others. Influence is when you make others successful!
~ Frank Damazio
To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
~ Frank Herbert
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it.
~ Frank Herbert
Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New
~ Frank Herbert
The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on." "How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom
~ Frank Herbert
To the people whose labors go beyond ideas into the realm of "real materials"—to the dry-land ecologists, wherever they may be, in whatever time they work, this effort at prediction is dedicated in humility and admiration.
~ Frank Herbert
Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know.
~ Frank Herbert
A crede c? È™tii ceva era calea cea mai sigur? de a te orbi singur. Nu înaintarea în vârst? era cea care frâna încetul cu încetul capacitatea de a înv??a (...), ci acumularea de "lucruri pe care le È™tiu".
~ Frank Herbert
Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.
~ Frank McCourt
There are boys here who have to mend their shoes whatever way they can. There are boys in this class with no shoes at all. It's not their fault and it's no shame. Our Lord had no shoes. He died shoeless. Do you see Him hanging on the cross sporting shoes? Do you, boys?
~ Frank McCourt