Quotes About Humility

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

The more we grow to know God, the more we realize how little we know of Him.

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God's grace.

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

My arms are too short to box with God.

even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

Humility begins with seeing who God is, seeing yourself compared to God, and then seeing yourself as God sees you.

God asks little, but He gives much.

Humility is something we should constantly pray for, yet never thank God that we have.

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.