Quotes About Humility

Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.

Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.

All the earth bows down to You; they sing praise to You; they sing praise to Your name.” Selah

He rules forever by His power; His eyes watch the nations. Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah

You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.

I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.

May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.

The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!

May those who say, “Aha, aha!” retreat because of their shame.

May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.

I say to the proud, ëDo not boast,í and to the wicked, ëDo not lift up your horn.

Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.í”

For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,

but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.

“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”

At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and rider lie stunned.

You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?

He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.

Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.

But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”