Quotes About Humility

What does knowing there's a God have to do with our pride problem? Only God is perfect. If pride is an effort to maintain the illusion of perfection, it's also an indication that we want to sit on the throne. We prefer the worship of others instead of connection to them. We'd rather be adored than be known. Humility is required to love and be loved as your authentic self. Pride fights for fake relationships built on hollow praise.

To truly be a medicine cat lies in a cat's heart, and all its five senses. You must be braver than warriors, wiser than a clan leader, humbler than the tiniest kit, more willing to learn than an apprentice...

With this life I give you humility.

God talks to those who are humble enough to listen to wise advice, willing to relinquish their plans for His, able to wait and not move ahead of Him impulsively.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

FAN?Y?M FAN? OLANI ?STEMEM... AC?Z?M AC?Z OLANI ?STEMEM.... RUHUMU RAHMANA TESL?M EYLED?M GAYR ?STEMEM... ?STER?M FAKAT B?R YAR-I BAK? ?STER?M... ZERREY?M FAKAT B?R ?EMS-? SERMET ?STER?M... H?Ç ENDER H?Ç?M FAKAT BU MEVCUDATI B?RDEN ?STER?M..

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.

There is no servant like God. No other being so humbles himself, and so bows down under weakness, and so lifts up with his strength, as God in the plenary service of Love.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this -- that he knew nothing yet.

St. Peter:  ââ'¬Å"Who is knocking at my gate?" Voice: "It is I." St. Peter: "Go away, we don't need any more school teachers here!

God can only be met in emptiness, by those who come in love, abandoning all effort to control, every need to astound.

He said it was wife's idea to name their daughter after him but I didn't believe him. Could have been worse, I decided. It could have been Nigella.

There's nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

even his incontinence —

an intention that radiates out of you. It's humility and gratitude. It's about living inside the notes, and between them, and understanding that each of those notes may mean a completely different thing to each person in an audience. Once it leaves your fingertips or your lips, it's no longer yours. Maybe it never was.

Don't get caught in the trap of believing you have to know everything about everything

less white" means to be "less arrogant, less certain, less defensive, less ignorant, and more humble"—and claiming that this discriminatory content was designed to enhance "inclusion.

Christ did not exalt himself in a world full of self-promotion; rather he stepped down and served others, which most, especially the elite, in the Greco-Roman world would have seen as despicable, not admirable.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

He shall not come to conquest, The conquest of kings, But in the bare stable He shall judge all things.

No pienses todavía en esas cosas de remontarte mucho, que eres más pelado que un huevo—le dijo ella—