Quotes About Humility

Tender, heartfelt worship is hard for a person who thinks of himself as having arrived. No one celebrates the presence and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ more than the person who has embraced his desperate and daily need of it.

When someone who knows you points out a sin, a weakness, or a failure, are you thankful?

You'll never celebrate grace as much as you should when you think you're more righteous than you actually are.

God's grace frees you from having to deny your weaknesses.

Perhaps before you start confessing your sin you should first confess your righteousness.

fact is that no one gives grace better than someone who is convinced that he needs it, as well.

Suffering has the power to expose what you have been trusting all along. If you lose your hope when your physical body fails, maybe your hope wasn't really in your Savior after all. It was humbling to confess that what I thought was faith was actually self-reliance

When you quit celebrating grace, you begin to forget how much you need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give.

Grace doesn't make it okay for you to live for you. No, grace frees you to experience the joy of living for One greater than you.

He knows that parents who admit that they are inadequate and run to God make the best parents.

When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy.

It was humbling to admit that I wasn't living the simple life because I was spiritually committed to it. I was living the simple life because I was poor.

Good parenting lives at the intersection of a humble admission of personal powerlessness and a confident rest in the power and grace of God.

It requires powerful mercy for me to become a person who surrenders self-appointed authority to the authority of God.

Suffering confronts us with the fact that life is not about us but about God. It is not about our glory but his.

Let yourself be humbled by how little you know and how few things you are able to do.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.

Faith means you take God at his word, you never let yourself think that you're smarter than him, and you live inside his boundaries.

Prayer is, in itself, a recognition that something exists in the world that is greater and more glorious than you. Prayer is meant to remind you that your little world, filled with your little plans, is not ultimate. Prayer teaches you that there is a greater glory than any glory that you could ever want for yourself. Prayer is meant to help you remember that the deepest, most important motivation for every person who has ever taken a breath is the awe of God.

Yet we all tend to think that we are more righteous than we are, and when we think this, we have taken the first step to embracing the delusion that maybe we're not so bad in God's eyes after all.

Perhaps we commit vertical larceny much more than we realize. Perhaps we quest for personal glory more than we think. Perhaps we take credit for what only God can do more often than we think we do. Perhaps, in subtle idolatry, we give credit to places and things when it really belongs to God.

You will always deny your need for God's grace when you are more irritated than convicted. It's possible to be irritated with things in other people that you regularly excuse in yourself.