Quotes about Humility
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
— Robert Frost
I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.
— Billy Graham
The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.
— William Booth
But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
— Anonymous
He who kneels the most, stands the best.
— DL Moody
Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
— Origen
Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.
— Henry Blackaby
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
— Mother Teresa
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
— Charles Spurgeon
We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.
— St. John Chrysostom