Quotes About Humility

paraphrase Confucius, real knowledge is finding out the depths of one's own ignorance.

He who is always anxious to teach will learn nothing.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for.

He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds

God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.

I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?

Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.