Quotes About Humility

“Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”

“I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.

He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”

This is He of whom I said, ëA man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.í

I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”

John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ëI am not the Christ, but am sent ahead of Him.í

He must increase; I must decrease.

If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.

I do not accept glory from men,

How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

“Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”

The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”

He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.

They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger.

When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”

And again He bent down and wrote on the ground.

When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.

You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

I do not seek My own glory. There is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.

Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. The One who glorifies Me is My Father, of whom you say ëHe is our God.í

They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.

(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)

Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesusí feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.