Quotes About Humility

Meekness enables us to be led by the Spirit of God.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

God is looking for nobodies who will become somebodies in his hands.

Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God's. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.

In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.

God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.

Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.

I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world. I have always tried to be a humble servant of God and a humble member of humanity.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

When you're reminded that God owes you nothing you find yourself more grateful and less entitled.

I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God.

The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others.