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Quotes About Humility

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans.
~ Tom Hiddleston
Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.
~ Lee Roberson
Pride is the rope God allows us all.
~ Leif Enger
I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility.
~ Miguel de Molinos
I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age'.
~ Milton Shulman
God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.
~ Richard Rohr
It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
~ Simone Weil
Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
~ George Herbert
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
~ John Bradford
Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.
~ Josemaria Escriva
Sometimes you successful folks can rise up so high reaching for more stuff that you miss knowing God. But you can never stoop low to help somebody and have God miss knowing you
~ Denver Moore
Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
~ Bob Goff
A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.
~ Brennan Manning
Who are we to ask God if it is his will.
~ Stephen Keshi
Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.
~ Swami Vivekananda
God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
~ Terry Eagleton
God's grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
~ Timothy Keller
I believe that God wants us to show respect.
~ Victoria Osteen
Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer