Quotes About Humility

Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.

thank you that we are unable to save ourselves and that each time we try, we fail. Have mercy on us. Be the strength in our weakness. Clear our heads of the foolishness of believing we can be our own gods. Steer our hearts to utter dependence on you. Amen.

And in a very special way, as Jesus says in Matthew 25:40, in the least of these, we find Jesus in disguise. Perhaps we are just as likely to encounter God over the dinner table or in the slums or in the streets as in a giant auditorium. Of course, suggesting that God doesn't need these million-dollar megacathedrals is the sort of thing that gets you in big trouble.

Not many people get argued into thinking differently, but experiences and stories move us, especially when we have the humility to listen and view the world from a different lens, from someone else's eyes.

Francis de Sales, a sixteenth-century bishop, said, "We often say that we are nothing, that we are misery itself and the refuse of the world, but we would be very sorry if anyone took us at our word or told others that we are really such as we say.

ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

Lord, thank you for using the foolish to confound the wise and the weak one: to shame the strong. Help us live with the shrewdness of serpents and the innocence of doves. Keep our feet from fatigue, our spirits from despair, and our hands from failing to rise in praise to you. Amen.

It's not always a bad thing to struggle. In fact, if you want to find the church alive, you look at places of struggle. Whenever we have triumphed and dominated, we get sick. Christianity is best when it is humble.

If you find yourself climbing the ladder of success, be careful or else on your way up you might pass Jesus on his way down.

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant.

O Signore, la tua notte è così grande e la nostra rete così piccola.

Ruling the world is overrated. It would really cut into your leisure time.

Ten thousand square feet? Do you really need ten thousand square feet? You both take up about ten square feet with your arms outstretched, spinning in circles." Felix said, "The west wing is for Celeste's wardrobe." Celeste said, "And the east wing is for Felix's ego.

Who am I to tell a man to live? Who am I to claim the powers of the Ancestors? I moved aside so the shawman could have more room to do his holy work. He's climbed the Scared Mountain and seen the face of the Ancestors. I have no place beside him. -Dashti

Where would I find enough leather To cover the entire surface of the earth? But with leather soles beneath my feet, It's as if the whole world has been covered.

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way of saying nobody's perfect.

Handsome young men should not act as if they know it.

Since I'm eatin' crow, I might as well finish the whole bird.

James reminds us: "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up" (James 4:10, NKJV).

Why are you always right, Captain?" "Now, do you know, my perspective is that I'm often wrong.

I tried so hard, I farted! Mrs.