Quotes About Humility

He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.

I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.

I've always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, that's never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew I've been able to offer the horse a better human being, as time has gone on.

It's all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it's actually all about us.

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.

Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.