Quotes About Humility

Good people destroy nothing needlessly, protect even insects from the flame of the lamp or rescue earthworms from drying asphalt into grass. They are protectors of all life—and do not fear ridicule.

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

The more he learned, the less he knew, and so he came to understand a fundamental truth of wine: As much as we learn about it, as much as we know, it is at its heart a mystery.

No hay nada noble en ser superior a alguna otra persona. La verdadera nobleza es ser superior a tu ser antiguo.

I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

The early Christians kept calling themselves a doulos in their letters to churches. They proudly bore the title of bond servant. They embraced the identity of a servant, and their identity impacted how they lived. Are you proud to be a bond servant of Christ? Or do you prefer another title? The reality: You are a servant.

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

He pried your fingers loose from any rock of comfort you clung to in the treacherous waters of human life and laughed if you drowned. Instead of a beatific smile, Roshi offered a sarcastic smirk.

If my church or your church isn't praying, we shouldn't be boasting in our orthodoxy or our Sunday morning attendance figures.1

We have the tendency to trace the good in our lives back to ourselves. But in the end, we find that it is all a work of God.

We must address the things that happen in our culture exegetically, expositionally, theologically, historically, critically, lovingly, passionately, humbly, and with Jesus at the center.

Our exceptionalness is not for us but for others. That is the paradox at the heart of who we are. So what makes us different has nothing to do with jingoism and nationalistic chest beating. If we have ever been great, it is only because we have been good. If we have ever been great, it is only because we have longed to help make others great too. That earnest humility and generosity must be attended to.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the battle to God. But

the idea that the God of the universe would humble himself to touch the lives of any of us is, in the end, far beyond our full comprehension.

It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he does not mind who gets the credit.

When he said they needed to humble themselves and listen to God's commands and obey them, he was not posturing. He wanted to impart this vision of God and was saying that one must utterly trust God now and must know that hearing him is indeed all that matters.

Great men like Wilberforce and Wesley had the humility and the wisdom to know that whatever strengths they had—and they had many—they could not win without a total reliance on God. At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the battle to God.

Although I know full well and hear every day that many people think little of me and say that I only write little pamphlets and sermons in German for the uneducated laity, I do not let that stop me. Would to God that in my lifetime I had, to my fullest ability, helped one layman to be better!

I believe that the Bible alone is the answer to all our questions, and that we need only to ask repeatedly and a little humbly, in order to receive this answer. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You don't become a chef to become famous.

Rules about how to be biblical men and women won't make us love each other. They can't. They won't make us wiling to embrace our God-given identities or help us be willing to walk in humble obedience. They can't because they don't have the power to. No, what we need is Someone who will transform our hearts by his love and humility.

The more stupid one is, the more he thinks he thinks he knows.