Humble Ourselves Quotes

#1. We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.

A.J. Darkholme

#2. The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

David Jeremiah

#3. We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are.

Ezra Taft Benson

#4. [L]et us believe that all is going along the best in the world when we take no satisfaction in it, provided we humble ourselves for this and redouble our confidence in God.

Vincent De Paul

#5. What greater glory can we anticipate than to stand before the throne of God, to humble ourselves before His great and incomparable majesty.

Billy Graham

#6. We always humble ourselves before bastards - it has already become a tradition.

Igor Eliseev

#7. When we walk in pride, we forfeit grace. But when we humble ourselves, grace awaits.

Pilgrim Benham

#8. We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

Tim Tebow

#9. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness ...

Abraham Lincoln

#10. Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#11. Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Blaise Pascal

#12. You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.

Alphonsus Liguori

#13. The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for the things we have done wrong. We need to ask God to forgive us for our arrogance.

Marianne Williamson

#14. The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. He set the example for all of us to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father.

Robert D. Hales

#16. In the quiet, we feel safe enough to humble ourselves.

Lysa TerKeurst

#17. We are to humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, approaching every relationship and every circumstance in reference to Him.

Jerry Bridges

#18. Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

John Vianney

#19. So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

Tim Tebow

#20. Healing begins when we humble ourselves and go to one another asking for forgiveness.

Susan Alexander Yates

#21. We humble ourselves under the mighty grace of the Creator. He will deliver us from every chain and oppression.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. When we can recognize how unique and beautiful each person is as a reflection of God Himself, rather than tearing them down in our heart, we will then be more willing to humble ourselves and lift others up. We

Ramsey Coutta

#23. Positively, it is a summons to us to recognize that God the Creator is transcendent, mysterious and inscrutable, beyond the range of any imagining or philosophical guesswork of which we are capable-and hence a summons to us to humble ourselves, to listen

J.I. Packer

#24. If you and I are to appropriate God's grace in our times of need, we must see His sovereignty ultimately ruling in all the circumstances of our lives. And when those circumstances are difficult, disappointing, or humiliating, we must humble ourselves under His mighty hand.

Jerry Bridges

#25. We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of ego and habit.

A.J. Darkholme

#26. Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

Eric Hoffer

#27. When there is injustice someone should speak. When there is unfairness someone should act.
We cannot have liberty and justice for all if we only want it only for ourselves. We must serve God in humble righteousness.

Tom Krause

#28. The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

Barbara Holland

#29. Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.

Henri Nouwen

#30. We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

Teresa Of Avila

#31. In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.

Benjamin Franklin

#32. There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of themselves - of God, in His greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority; of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.

John Owen

#33. Humility isn't as much a character trait as an action. We must clothe ourselves with it. We choose to wear it or we don't. If God has to humble us, it's too late - and that's going to be a bad day. We all have to demonstrate the humility of Christ in our actions.

Ross Parsley

#34. Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

Albert Schweitzer

#35. I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.

Rebecca Wells

#36. A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.

Thomas A Kempis

#37. Every one of us should be humble to submit ourselves to God. Then it will be easy for us to move toward the fulfillment of our life purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#38. The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others - or allow ourselves to be taken - with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.

Philip Toshio Sudo

#39. Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

Philip Neri

#40. Religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

Frederick William Robertson

#41. Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

Madeleine L'Engle

#42. I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. 11.

Teresa Of Avila

#43. What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Augustus Hare

#44. Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

Giorgio Morandi