Quotes About Humility

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.

If God had consulted me before embarking on the Creation, I would have suggested something simpler.

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.

To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.

If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.

Nothing is small if God accepts it.

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.

What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens.

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.

I want to be only a poor friar who prays - if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!

If we don't think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort.