Quotes about Humility
A man is powerful on his knees.
— Corrie Ten Boom
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
— AW Tozer
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
— William Temple
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
— Victor Hugo
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
— St. Augustine
Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.
— Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.
— Mother Teresa
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.
— JI Packer
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
— St. Augustine
Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
— Catherine Marshall
Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.
— Timothy Keller
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
— DA Carson