Quotes About Humility

Each day one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine was provided. But I did not demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy.

On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.

But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.

You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.

You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.

That day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the kingís gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.

So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”

Then Mordecai returned to the kingís gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief.

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

ëCan a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash.

Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred.

Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.

What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?