Quotes about Humility

If you have been freed from needing success and acclaim to feel good about yourself, you know grace has visited you.

None of us is yet a grace graduate, but we're satisfied. We all give evidence that we still need to grow, but we're satisfied.

This means that my biggest, ongoing problem as a dad is not my children, it's me.

Good parenting, which does what God intends it to do, begins with this radical and humbling recognition that our children don't actually belong to us. Rather, every child in every home, everywhere on the globe, belongs to the One who created him or her. Children are God's possession (see Ps. 127:3) for his purpose.

Physical suffering exposes the delusion of personal autonomy and self-sufficiency

The smart kid teases the dumb kid. The athlete makes fun of the kid with two left feet. Something is so wrong inside us that we can't even handle blessing properly.

When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender.

When you forget mercy and think you're deserving, you find it all too easy not to extend mercy to others.

Jesus calls us to humbly admit that the biggest danger to each of us is not the sin that lurks outside us, but the iniquity that still resides in our hearts.

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows. Gratitude for mercy given is what motivates mercy extended.

If you take credit as a leader instead of assigning credit to the one who sent you and who alone produces fruit out of your labors, you will praise less, pray less, and plan more.

One of the dark delusions of sin is that it causes us at points to buy into the insane thought that we might be smarter than God.