Quotes About Humility

You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience to God.

So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.

Christians who live for self dishonor their Redeemer.

You are to be men who will walk humbly with God, who will stand before Him in your God-given manhood, free from impurity, free from all contamination from the sensuality that is corrupting this age. You must be men who will despise all falsity and wickedness, who will dare to be true and brave, holding aloft the blood-stained banner of Prince Emmanuel.

Before men can be truly wise, they must realize their dependence upon God, and be filled with His wisdom.

We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self.

A view of our own sinfulness drives us to Him who can pardon.—Our High Calling, p. 27.

Again and again Christ had taught that true greatness is measured by moral worth. In the estimation of heaven, greatness of character consists in living for the welfare of our fellow men, in doing works of love and mercy. Christ the King of glory was a servant to fallen man.

Enoch was a man of strong and highly cultivated mind and extensive knowledge; he was honored with special revelations from God; yet being in constant communion with heaven, with a sense of the divine greatness and perfection ever before him, he was one of the humblest of men. The closer the connection with God, the deeper was the sense of his own weakness and imperfection.

la verdadera felicidad se encuentra, no en dar rienda suelta al orgullo y al lujo, sino en la comunión con Dios

A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to the world.

Men of the highest education in the arts and sciences have learned precious lessons from Christians in humble life who were designated by the world as unlearned. But these obscure disciples had obtained an education in the highest of all schools. They had sat at the feet of Him who spoke as "never man spake." [252]

The higher the position a man occupies, the greater the responsibility that he has to bear, the wider will be the influence that he exerts and the greater his need of dependence on God. Ever should he remember that with the call to work comes the call to walk circumspectly before his fellow men. He is to stand before God in the attitude of a learner. Position does not give holiness of character.

He would leave his high position as the Majesty of heaven, appear upon earth and humble himself as a man, and by his own experience become acquainted with the sorrows and temptations which man would have to endure.

There can be no self-exaltation, no boastful claim to freedom from sin, on the part of those who walk in the shadow of Calvary's cross. They

God can do little for men who lose their sense of dependence upon Him.

What is sanctification? It is to give one's self wholly and without reserve—soul, body, and spirit—to God; to deal justly; to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God; to know and to do the will of God without regard to self or self-interest; to be heavenly-minded, pure, unselfish, holy, and without spot or stain.

Christ was not to exercise divine power for His own benefit.

i felt ashamed. i stared down at the ground and stood very still and very quietly.

when you start to feel like you are better than someone else, you should probably stick your head in a toilet because at that moment your thoughts are crap.

God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty. …

It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.

laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can