Quotes About Humility

We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.

The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.

I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified.

We don't get to decide who God is.

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them.

God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.

I want to be aware of how I treat others, not thinking too highly of myself to be a servant in a culture which tries to place me on a throne that only God should sit.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.

I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

Judging others' intentions is the right of God alone. We don't have this right, and it is poor manners with God.

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.

I'm not a god, I'm just a simple guy.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.