Quotes About Humility

And admitting that you can't fix yourself—that only God can—is the first step to staying fixed.

Refusing to acknowledge and embrace your sinful past is choosing your love for yourself over your love of God.

Before you can stand up straight before another person, you have to fall on your knees before God.

But we must remember that, in a way, claiming all or too much responsibility is just another form of ego gratification.

23Pride ends in humiliation,         while humility brings honor.

17He did all this so you would never say to yourself, 'I have achieved this wealth with my own strength and energy.

THE BIG PICTURE A. WISDOM: THE FOUNDATION OF RECOVERY (1:1-27) B. FAITH: THE SUBSTANCE OF RECOVERY (2:1-26) C. SELF-CONTROL: SETTING BOUNDARIES IN RECOVERY (3:1-18) D. HUMILITY: THE ATTITUDE OF RECOVERY (4:1-17) E. GIVING OF OURSELVES: THE EVIDENCE OF RECOVERY (5:1-20)

If I had a dime for everytime that I was wrong, I'd be broke.

see yourself as the smallest of the small. Then you can make room for the whole world.

The Tao te Ching says, "[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel Ã¢â'¬Â¦ [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

So from Janis I learned that to make it as a female musician in a man's world is going to be tough, and you need to keep your head held high. From Jimi, I learned flamboyance, grace, and humility.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Be nice to everyone you meet on the way up because you will meet them again on the way down.

Rightly did Darwin pin up a paper warning himself to be careful about using the words "higher" and "lower." MARY MIDGLEY

deep humility. There is nothing the arrogant hate more.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Matthew 18:3, (NIV), "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

You're a genius," she said. "Hardly," he said. "I just show up and pay attention.

Si se requiere mucho valor para admitir que no conoces todas las respuestas, imagina lo difícil que es admitir que nis siquiera conoces la pregunta.

We could summarize all of this background to Bonhoeffer's christology in one sentence, albeit a complex one: The cross was a stumbling block to the Romans; the cross was a stumbling block to the Nazis; the cross was a stumbling block to moderns; and—unless we are humbled and brought low beneath the cross to see its power and beauty—the cross can be a stumbling block to us.

Gratitude is equally underrated and under-practiced. It too requires humility to say "thank you." Saying "thank you" means one is dependent on the other, that one needs the other.

God draws near to the lowly, loving the lost, the unnoticed, the unremarkable, the excluded, the powerless, and the broken."15

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos