Quotes About Humility

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

From my daughters, however, I have learned what every parent knows of himself—that I do not know how to raise children.

I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.

Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you've done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently. It's spelled 'D-O-N-E', which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God's gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.

Princes and princesses are commissioned to see the people they lead reach their full potential in God. That means that the greatest compliment we can ever have is when the people we are leading become greater than us. If we believe that we are leading because we are the most qualified, then we will subconsciously work to undermine other people's advancements.

God has chosen to veil Himself in just the right measure so that our wills and intellects could be shaped by our allegiance to Him. He is there for anyone humble enough to recognize his or her personal need. He is also subtle enough to be ignored by those who are filled with themselves.

Rule with the heart of a servant, and serve with the heart of a king. This is how Jesus used His authority.

When we came to Christ, it was humility to honestly assess ourselves as sinners. To go back and say that's still who we are is to deny what Christ did for us. Doing that is no longer humbling ourselves, it's undercutting the resurrection power God has given us to live like Him.

When my need to appear right is greater than my desire to display God's love, I will inevitably treat people with judgment, disrespect and harshness.

Rule with the heart of a servant, and serve with the heart of a king.

Many have made the mistake of thinking that Christians are to be the heads of all corporations, governments, and departments. As good as that may sound, it's actually a fruit of the true goal. Christlikeness—excellence with humility—is the real goal. Promotion comes from the Lord. If we spent more time developing a Kingdom heart, we'd have more people in key places of leadership.

We must learn to rule with the heart of a servant and serve with the heart of a king. It may take us a lifetime to learn this well, but it is a worthwhile journey. #bornforsignificance

One of the ultimate expressions of arrogance is to think that we know ahead of time what is about to happen, and to let that cause us to become ineffective in our assigned purpose and call.

The bottom line is that we must learn to rule with the heart of a servant and serve with the heart of a king.

FATHERS WITH POWER VS. TEACHERS WITH ONLY WORDS Fathers Teachers (not after Jesus' example) Lifestyle Imitate fathers Gather around ideas (divisive) Attitude Humility Pride (puffed up) Ministry Power Many words Focus The Kingdom Teachings

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It's not! If I'm the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

Doesn't it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn't it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don't feel very precious?

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

we are looking at life from our perspective, our limited, finite and earthbound frame of reference. Our egos step in the way of God and we think we can see things better from our point of view. We block God out and stumble our way ahead. We are looking at our life from our will be done, not God's will be done.

When, in Paradise Lost, Adam asks about the movements of the heavens, Raphael refuses to answer. "Let it speak," he says, "the Maker's high magnificence, who built / so spacious, and his line stretcht out so far; / That man may know he dwells not in his own; / An edifice too large for him to fill, / Lodg'd in a small partition, and the rest / Ordain'd for uses to his Lord best known.

Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

Jesus is taking an ax to our pride when He tells us the truth about our emptiness apart from Him.