Quotes About Humility

So the call to "give an account" is, first, not a call to beat unwilling people into intellectual submission, but to be the servant of those in need, often indeed the servant of those who are in the grip of their own intellectual self-righteousness and pride, usually reinforced by their social surroundings.

Only the humble person will let God be God. Such people are realistic about who they actually are

Anger indulged, instead of simply waved off, always has in it an element of self-righteousness and vanity. Find a person who has embraced anger, and you find a person with a wounded ego.

Humility leads to perfect death. Humility means the giving up of self and the taking of the place of perfect nothingness before

humble yourself. This is your one duty.

It is setting aside our own ideas as supreme and our own will as ultimate, freeing us from the burden of having our own way and of being all-wise in our own eyes.

Keep in mind that God did not say that Job was wrong in what he said, but that he did not understand what he was saying.

From Jesus' perspective, there is no greater calling than to be a servant.*

Self-denial means knowing only Christ, no longer knowing oneself. It means no longer seeing oneself, only him who is going ahead, no longer seeing the way which is too difficult for us. Self-denial says only: he is going ahead; hold fast to him. —DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

only humility leads to perfect death; only death perfects humility. Humility and death are in their very nature one: humility is the bud; in death the fruit is ripened to perfection.

To be simple, humble, and thoughtful as we listen to others and help them come to faith in the One who has given us life.

we demean God by considering him a cosmic boss who orders humans around

Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change, and when we are right, make us easy to live with!

Heroism, generally, is totally out of place in the spiritual life, until we grow to the point at which it would never be thought of as heroism anyway.

This is certainly true for those in professional ministry. In humility, every Christian leader is subject to the people to whom he or she ministers. This is, after all, what ministry is, professional or not—being subject to the needs of other people. That involves listening to them, being attentive to them. But if we become dependent on their opinions, we have ruined any chance of truly helping them, because now our primary concern is to gain their approval.

Thomas à Kempis: Of what use is it to discourse learnedly on the Trinity, if you lack humility and therefore displease the Trinity? Lofty words do not make a man just or holy; but a good life makes him dear to God. I would far rather feel contrition than be able to define it. If you knew the whole Bible by heart, and all the teachings of the philosophers, how would this help you without the grace and love of God?[6]

Humility is the beautiful condition of people who have learned to surrender their desires, their glory, and their power.

God will gladly give humility to us if, trusting and waiting on him to act, we refrain from pretending we are what we know we are not, from presuming a favorable position for ourselves and from pushing or trying to override the will of others.

We should expect anyone who remains in a formal leadership context to experience repeated bouts of flight, doubt, surrender, and return. Why would this be God's plan? Why does God love the reluctant leader? Here is one reason: the reluctant leader is not easily seduced by power, pride, or ambition.

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin Luther

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin

Langdon decided not to say another word all evening. Sophie Neveu was clearly a hell of a lot smarter than he was.

As the old adage goes: 'Men plan, and God laughs.'

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him