Quotes about Humility

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.

No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.

When I looked very closely to the Bible and to Jesus, this Christ who came, I discovered something awesome. I discovered that when He's first, then He places me in a second position that's above the class that I was given by other men.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

Yes, I pray and go to church and read my Bible. But sometimes I shake my fist at God. It's not the picture of peace I realize, and I certainly make no claims of wearing the armor of God. I'm lucky if I can get the underwear of decency on, all right?

Hypocrisy is a proud desire to appear better than you are. Be thoroughly humbled and vile in your own eyes, and hypocrisy is done.