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Quotes About Humility

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.
~ Matt Chandler
We will never meet God in revival until we have first met Him in brokenness.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.
~ Pope Francis
You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God!
~ S. Truett Cathy
Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
~ Saadi
When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.
~ Shahrukh Khan
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.
~ Therese of Lisieux
To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.
~ William Dunbar
God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.
~ Muhammad Ali
God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.
~ Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
It is our own arrogance and pride that cause pain. The more that we think that we can do anything, the less we realize our complete dependence on God, and the worse the pain becomes.
~ Reshad Feild
I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.
~ Hugh Laurie
Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God's word.
~ James MacDonald
What's the difference between you and God? God never thinks he's you.
~ Anne Lamott
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
If the perfect Son of God is unattractive to you, then obviously you are an unattractive person.
~ John Gerstner
God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
~ Ramakrishna
For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.
~ Sophocles
Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.
~ Leo Rosten