Quotes About Humility

Because you are human, you will continue to make mistakes. Thinking that you should live an error-free life is symptomatic of pride.

I have called each of My children to a different path, distinctly designed for that one. Do not let anyone convince you that his path is the only right way. And be careful not to extol your path as superior to another's way. What I require of you is to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Me—wherever I lead.

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. EPHESIANS 4 : 1 – 6

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. —COLOSSIANS 3:12

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. —PHILIPPIANS 2:6

Thank Me for the difficulties in your life, since they provide protection from the idolatry of self-reliance.

You are a wise and wonderful woman.' 'No more wise and wonderful than anyone else,' Heavenly said. 'You should not forget this.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

Be simple and sincere.

The hearing of masterworks of different epochs will speediest of all cure you of vanity and self-adoration.

God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. The moment we think we've mastered it, we have failed to be readers of the Bible.

Yes, the church is part of the good news of Jesus. And the church proclaims the good news of Jesus. But when men and women have only seen churches formed by unhealthy power, celebrity, competitiveness, secrecy, and self-protection, our corporate ecclesial life belies the truth of the gospel. The church can only witness to the truth of Jesus by seeking justice, serving with humility, operating transparently, and confessing and lamenting failures.

God did not give the Bible in order that we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. The moment we think we've mastered it, we have failed to be readers of the Bible. Of course, I think we should read the Bible and know it—but it is the specific element of reading for mastery versus reading to be mastered that grows out of this shortcut.

when we peer into our own hearts, we will have sufficient cause — even laughably ridiculous cause — to see our own sin and be humbled before God. That will lead us to an other-awareness that our fellow disciples and humans are like us, sinners in need of mercy, grace, forgiveness, and patience. This reversal of the proclivity to be gods creates on our part a tenderness in our perception of the sins of others.

There's a difference between focusing on being right and focusing on being a follower of Jesus.

In our local context, the pastors and elders and deacons are disciples of Jesus, called to submit first to him and to nurture others into serving one another as Jesus himself served his disciples. The strangest words in the church ought to be the words "authority" and "power.

Jesus is infallible and we are not.

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

Socrates would probably say the only way to ensure you're not an asshole is to assume you are one.

Without failure, we forget, in arrogance, that our understanding of things is never as complete as we think it is.

I want to be taught, not told. I don't mind being proven wrong or trumped provided I learn something, but I did not follow decrees well.

To rely on a single model is hubris.

couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys—but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly. —Richard Feynman

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.