Quotes About Humility

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Thank God I'm not too cool for a seatbelt.

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

True humility means total dependence on God for everything.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

Don't wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.