Quotes about Humility
The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.
— Andrew Murray
To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.
— Billy Graham
If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!
— St. Cyprian
To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.
— Kevin DeYoung
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
— DL Moody
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth's appearing.
— Mary Baker Eddy
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
— Teresa of Avila
By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.
— Leonard Ravenhill
No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.
— Thomas a Kempis
What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.
— Max Lucado
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
— Hudson Taylor