Quotes About Humility

Qui Servum Magnum - He Who Serves Greatest.

Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it?

The world will not be changed when we ascend to power. God's kingdom will not be furthered because an evangelical Christian resides in the White House or the highest court in the land. God changes the world through humility and service. it is a subversive tactic, yet highly effective.

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

It is arrogance to believe you can know all things. Perhaps you are right. But perhaps you are not.

Not all who become leaders crave the power that goes with it.

It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful ' without feeling like you're cocky.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace, Grant me. Father, a servant's place.

Give me the lowest place: not that I dare Ask for that lowest place, but Thou hast died That I might live and share Thy glory by Thy side. Give me the lowest place: of if for me That lowest place too high, make one more low Where I may sit and see My God and love Thee so.

Sam's constant deference and humility make many modern readers uncomfortable with its connotations of class difference, and in Peter Jackson's films this differential between Frodo and Sam is softened a bit.

I wana go out like I came in... Naked and Screaming!

Sólo en la antigua tradición occidental y, sobre todo, en la cristiandad católica, el hombre se convierte en algo grande. Debe ser personalmente humilde; pero también debe recordar, y poner en práctica, el principio de que es un ser inmortal. hecho a imagen y semejanza de Dios y rescatado con el precio de la sangre de Dios, ciudadano de una ciudad eterna, con un destino de esplendor sin límites.

If you have succeeded in winning people's hearts by friendliness, simplicity and courtesy, the secret lay in this: that you were not thinking of yourself. Hold fast this mystic power; it is a spark from Heaven.

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

Mein eigentliches Werk besteht, allen Ernstes, nicht aus Prosa oder Vers: sondern in der Erkenntnis meiner Dummheit.

As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever.

He always spoke of himself to me "as an unskilled laborer in the vineyard of the Lord, with regard to outlook as well as wages.

Güzel bir söz vard?r: hiçbir ÅŸey. Hiçbir ÅŸey düÅŸünme. BaÅŸbakan? düÅŸünme, Katolikleri de düÅŸünme. Küvette aÄŸlayan, terliklerine kahve damlayan o palyaçoyu düÅŸün.

When I got the Nobel Prize I said to myself that it had made me neither smarter nor more stupid.

Of course he [God] will forgive me; that's his business.

THE CONFESSION OF AN INTERIOR MAN, LEADING TO HUMILITY Turning my gaze at myself and attentively observing the course of my interior life I am convinced, through experience, that I love neither God nor my neighbor, that I have no faith, and that I am full of pride and sensuality. This realization is the result of careful examination of my feelings and actions. I do not love God. For if I loved Him, then I would be constantly thinking of

What science does is what I would like more literature to do too: show us that we are living in an exquisitely complicated world that is not all about us. It does not belong to us alone. It never has done.

and it was there, standing on the edge of a village playing field, that I gratefully stepped into novicehood again, as if I had never seen a hawk in my life.