Quotes About Humility

“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my fatherís house.”

Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ëMy own hand has saved me.í

But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?

God has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.

But Gideon replied, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son. The LORD shall rule over you.”

But the fig tree replied, ëShould I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?í

Finally all the trees said to the thornbush, ëCome and reign over us.í

But the thornbush replied, ëIf you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.í

“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ëWho is Abimelech that we should serve him?í Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”

“We have sinned,” the Israelites said to the LORD. “Deal with us as You see fit; but please deliver us today!”

When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.

Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

She has said, ëPlease let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.í So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”

At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”

“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”

Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”

So she lay down at his feet until morning, but she got up before anyone else could recognize her. Then Boaz said, “Do not let it be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.”

Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.

The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.

The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.

And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”í”

When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.

But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.