Top 63 Humbles Quotes
#1. Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.
Francis Of Assisi
#2. I value science
none can prize it more,
It gives ten thousand motives to adore:
Be it religious, as it ought to be,
The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.
Abraham Coles
#3. If he exalts himself, I humble him.
If he humbles himself, I exalt him.
And I go on contradicting him
Until he understands
That he is a monster that passes all understanding.
Blaise Pascal
#4. Many rich and powerful men would pay dearly to see the Lord or His Most Pure Mother, but God does not appear in riches, but in the humble heart ... Every one of the poorest men can be humbles and come to know God. It need neither money nor reputation to come to know God, but only humility.
Silouan The Athonite
#5. Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check.
Crystal Evans
#6. A true vocation calls us out beyond ourselves; breaks our heart in the process and then humbles, simplifies and enlightens us about the hidden, core nature of the work that enticed us in the first place.
David Whyte
#7. Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.
Hamza Yusuf
#8. Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn't willing to do 'anything' for money.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#9. If Paul did not love the Corinthians, he would walk away from them and let them flounder in their own cesspool of sin. Instead, he is proactive. He confronts, warns, writes, visits, and even humbles himself before them (2 Cor. 2:5-10; 12:21).
Alexander Strauch
#10. The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.
Stephanie Gilmore
#11. He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
Josh Billings
#12. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman
#13. That is a reward that humbles me: the fact that immigrants coming to America, much like I did, can come into a Forever 21 and know that all of this was started by a simple Korean immigrant with a dream.
Do Won Chang
#14. It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
Adam Clarke
#15. It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.
David Levithan
#16. Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#17. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.
Jesus Christ
#19. A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
Woodrow Wilson
#20. And when I concentrate on the stars, the planets, and their motions, I have an irresistible sense of machinery, clockwork, elegant precision working on a scale that, however lofty our aspirations, dwarfs and humbles us.
Carl Sagan
#21. The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
Timothy Keller
#22. That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
Maya Angelou
#23. Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance.
There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.
Pete Townshend
#24. Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can't resolve, or, dissolve.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#25. In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards his own will, so much does he brings harm to himself.
Ephrem The Syrian
#26. Who fear His name. God exalts those who approach Him with reverence, self-emptiness, and ownership of their spiritual bankruptcy. And when godly fear humbles us, God in His mercy will exalt us.
Matt Chandler
#27. I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
Don Cheadle
#28. The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.
Charles Hodge
#29. Krishna exalts those who are humble and humbles those who exalt themselves.
Radhanath Swami
#30. Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)
George R R Martin
#31. Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us.
The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.
Vance Havner
#32. Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.
Kenneth Boa
#33. I look at you, and I see the most beautiful woman on the face of the earth. Inside and out you are beautiful. I know you better than anyone else could ever know you, because I can see into your thoughts and read your memories. The very light in you, our tremendous capacity for loving, humbles me.
Christine Feehan
#34. With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. But you're better than I am, Katsa. And it doesn't humiliate me. It humbles me. But it doesn't humiliate me.
Kristin Cashore
#36. Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.
Steven Franssen
#37. Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.
Thomas Watson
#39. In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
Gary Kemp
#40. Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.
Thomas Brooks
#41. Darkness humbles and demolishes the people; it destroy any country
Sunday Adelaja
#42. A genuinely humble person humbles himself even before those who should be humbled by his presence.
Michael Ugwu Eneja
#43. Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.
Jentezen Franklin
#45. On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I joke, but it has. I mean, I don't consider myself a card-carrying Buddhist, you know. But I do believe deeply in the ideas, and I think anytime you have interest in anything, it somehow humbles you.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#46. The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#47. Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God.
Maximus The Confessor
#48. If you fall down to the ground, you're in the perfect position to pray. It definitely humbles you and if you're humble it's easier for God to get Closer to You.
Jeanette Coron
#49. I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective ... it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you've been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
Beyonce Knowles
#50. Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.
Ephrem The Syrian
#51. It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.
Maya Angelou
#52. There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor and humbles the rich. In the process, both are sanctified.
Marion G. Romney
#53. [A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose.
Vincent De Paul
#54. In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.
Albert Einstein
#55. Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy
John Piper
#57. He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
Laozi
#58. He who humbles himself before God is likely to humble himself before others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#59. But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself shall be exalted.
Theophan The Recluse
#60. I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.
Chase Utley
#61. Our dedication- devotion- to craft should enlighten as it humbles us.
Ivan Brunetti
#62. I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.
Billy Mills
#63. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it. It humbles me that companies want me. It's a challenge to uphold their values and make their product look good. I take that personally.
Tim Tebow
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