Top 100 Humility God Quotes
#1. To confess, then, is to praise and glorify God; it is an exercise in self-knowledge and true humility in the atmosphere of grace and reconciliation.
Augustine Of Hippo
#3. This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.
Pope Francis
#4. He that rises after his falls, with confidence in God and profound humility of heart, will become, in God's hands, a proper instrument for the accomplishment of great things; but he who acts otherwise can never do any good.
Paul Of The Cross
#5. Humility is not a one time lesson that comes when you have lost everything. It is a daily reminder of how far we have come, yet still short of who we can be through HIS guidance. Blessed is the soul that can recognize that he isn't moving mountains, but God is for him.
Shannon L. Alder
#6. A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.
Thomas Merton
#7. Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.
K.P. Yohannan
#8. Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.
Richard Cecil
#9. God gave us feelings to feel them, not to judge them. He is the Judge.
Jason Gray
#10. Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.
Dietrich Von Hildebrand
#11. Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.
Joyce Meyer
#12. The sacred souls with humility, seek knowledge from the Great Spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. It is not humility to underrate yourself. Humility is to think of yourself as God thinks of you. It is to feel that if we have talents God has given them to us. And let it be seen that, like freight in a vessel, they tend to sink us low. The more we have, the lower we ought to lie.
Charles Spurgeon
#15. Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.
Charles Grandison Finney
#16. Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#17. What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God.
Augustine Of Hippo
#18. The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.
G.K. Chesterton
#19. The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. God didn't create you to walk around in self-defeat in any form. Neither are we fashioned to become someone's emotional slave; adhering to the harshness of their words in humility and remorse, while fearing a verbal lashing if we reject their false authority.
T.K. Ware
#21. The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#22. I too was pinched off from a piece of clay,
I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked
by things too wonderful for me
Bryana Johnson
#23. It is a sad thing to become so blinded and deafened by pride that you are no longer concerned about whether or not God is pleased with your actions.
Thea Harris
#24. 1052The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause
Tom Krause
#25. There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Abu Bakr
#26. The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable.
Brian D. McLaren
#27. Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#28. God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.
Pope Benedict XVI
#29. Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart.
L. Whitney Clayton
#30. Don't know if a God exists, but anyone who claims to be certain of His absence probably lacks humility more than faith.
Wayne Gladstone
#31. If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.
Patricia Amis
#32. Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.
Andrew Murray
#33. Americans to bow our heads in humility before our Heavenly Father, a God who calls us not to judge our neighbors, but to love them, to ask His guidance upon our nation and its leaders in every level of government.
George W. Bush
#34. I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.
Francis Frangipane
#35. Not to be occupied with thy sin, but to be occupied with God, brings deliverance from self. IX. Humility
Andrew Murray
#36. God opposes the proud. The way you get up front is do really good work in the back. Humility is a by product of spending time with Jesus - it is not a reflection of yourself
Bradley Cooper
#37. The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness. This is why humility and the striving towards God are the fundamental virtues of a Christian.
John Of Shanghai And San Francisco
#38. Humility is really a subjective matter. Only God can truly tell a man who's humble!
Kingsley C. Okei
#39. God's leaders should be motivated by humility and love.
Karen Wheaton
#40. It's true that God wants us to grow in our knowledge and obedience of him, but he never wants us to stop living with the humility, trust, and the absolute abandonment of a child.
Caleb Breakey
#41. My faith instills in me a deep sense of humility and gratitude, reminding me how often I fall short and how much I need the savior, and how thankful I am that God has done for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Karen Hughes
#42. Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days
and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible
and nothing can change that; neither new
girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or
God.
Charles Bukowski
#43. Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.
Nathanael Emmons
#44. Might it be that the voice of truth can come from the suffering soul who has wrestled with God over mysteries and paradoxes? Might the voice of truth be the one that in wisdom and humility says, "I don't know"?
Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
#45. Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.
John Cassian
#46. God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?
Martin Buber
#47. Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other those of the body. This is what the blessed David indicates when he prays to God, saying, "Look on my humility and my toil, and forgive all my sins" (Ps. 25:18).
Maximus The Confessor
#48. God's rescue of us, followed by His acceptance of us, enables us to walk in one fluid motion of humility and confidence.
Matt Chandler
#49. God inspired in the heart of the pure Virgin Mary His own intense love for humility ... It was this humility which attracted to her the countless graces which rendered her worthy to be the Mother of God, Queen of heaven and earth.
John Eudes
#50. Until you can leave the matter of forgiveness to God, you will not have acquired true humility.
Colleen McCullough
#51. Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason.
Israel Shenker
#52. The call to humility has been too little regarded in the church because its true nature and importance have been too little apprehended. It is not something that we bring to God, or that He bestows; it is simply the sense of entire nothingness that comes when we see how truly God is everything.
Andrew Murray
#53. Even the most ignorant person on earth can experience union with God in perfect love by practicing contemplation in the beauty of humility.
Anonymous
#54. If you have humility you are halfway to God-realization.
Frederick Lenz
#55. A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
Saint Ambrose
#56. Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru Nanak
#57. God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.
Matt Chandler
#58. If anyone insists on his own goodness and despises others . . . let him look into himself when this petition confronts him. He will find he is no better than others and that in the presence of God everyone must duck his head and come into the joy of forgiveness only through the low door of humility.
Timothy Keller
#59. Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#61. Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless.
Myles Munroe
#62. Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.
Thomas A Kempis
#63. God made us and God is able to empower us to do whatever he calls us to do. Denying that we can accomplish God's work is not humility; it is the worst kind of pride.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#64. God's grace always assists those who struggle, but this does not mean that a struggler is always in the position of a victor. Sometimes in the arena the wild animals did not touch the righteous ones, but by no means were they all preserved untouched.
John Of Shanghai And San Francisco
#66. In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
Bill W.
#67. Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.
Edward T. Welch
#68. There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again.
David Lloyd-Jones
#69. A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.
Joseph Addison
#70. The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.
Criss Jami
#72. When you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.
Charles R. Swindoll
#73. We suffer because we have no humility and we do not love our brother. From love of our brother comes the love of God. People do not learn humility, and because of their pride cannot receive the grace of the Holy Spirit, and therefor the whole world suffers.
Silouan The Athonite
#74. The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.
James MacDonald
#75. One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment. And if you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#76. A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
Thomas A Kempis
#77. I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.
Jimmy Carter
#78. Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.
Jack W. Hayford
#79. I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough.
Emily Carr
#80. Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.
Alphonsus Liguori
#81. Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
John Calvin
#82. I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.
Henry Eyring
#83. We do God more honor by believing what He has said about Himself and having the courage to come boldly to the throne of grace than by hiding in self-conscious humility among the trees of the garden.
A.W. Tozer
#85. By bravely enduring our trials, we learn humility, compassion for others, and a great reliance on God. We also learn that our happiness and progress depend much less upon what challenges life may bring and infinitely more on how we face and overcome those challenges.
Lloyd D. Newell
#86. Never look down on someone because God himself does not do so. No matter what defines the status, nationality or gender of a person, once God's spirit is in him/her, he or she becomes a complete creature with complete potentials!
Israelmore Ayivor
#87. Get rid of pride; it'll only ride you to the wrong side of life. May God's words guide your faith to abide in true humility. Kick off pride; embrace humility!
Israelmore Ayivor
#88. Choose to be at peace with yourself and you will never have any battle to lose. Find yourself every reason and season to share your peace with others!
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. Oh, Brethren, what is the result of pride? Oh, see what humility can do? What was the need for all these sufferings? For, if from the beginning Man had humbled himself, obeyed God, and kept the commandment he would not have fallen.
Dorotheus Of Gaza
#90. When someone offends me, I think it's a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#91. I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.
Francois Fenelon
#92. The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.
Wilferd Peterson
#93. Any country that is now humbled and humiliated by darkness will be raised up by God
Sunday Adelaja
#94. God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
Ramakrishna
#95. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: "slave for Jesus".
Kyle Idleman
#96. Contemporaries relate that hearing Martin Luther pray was "an experience in theology". They said the reformer began praying with such humility that he could be pitied, only to proceed with such boldness before God that the human hearer would fear for him.
A.W. Tozer
#97. Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .
Alexander MacLaren
#98. Everything is human. The Spaniard's fear of God, his humility, his solemnity, his scrupulous austerity is a very worthy form of humanity,
Thomas Mann
#99. It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility.
Miguel De Molinos
#100. The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
Josh Billings
