Quotes On Humility Before God

#1. Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.

Andrew Murray

#2. A man's potential for God lies not in his ability, nor in his opportunity, but in his humility before God.

Jim Berg

#3. Humility before God is nothing if not proved in humility before men

Andrew Murray

#4. Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference.

Pope Francis

#5. Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.

Andrew Murray

#6. 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

#7. Every man's measurement is determined by his responses when he is on his knees before God.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#8. You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

Adriana Trigiani

#9. 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

#10. Humility and brokenness before God is the key for Him to dwell in us.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Save they shall cast these things away, and consider themselves fools before God, and come down in the depths of humility, he will not open unto them.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#12. I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

Zubin Mehta

#13. The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.

Frank Bartleman

#14. Though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.

Evelyn Underhill

#15. Karen is like RuPaul - she's a character. It never occurred to me until now, but she is!

Megan Mullally

#16. High and holy ambition
to be a saint
is not opposed to holy humility
total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.

Peter Kreeft

#17. 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

#18. Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

Alexander MacLaren

#19. Goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

#20. He who humbles himself before God is likely to humble himself before others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

John Irving

#22. 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

#23. Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Emily Dickinson

#24. The problem of chemotherapy of bacterial infections could be solved neither by the experimental medical research worker nor by the chemist alone, but only by the two together working in very close cooperation over many years.

Gerhard Domagk

#25. Humor is the politeness of despair.

Boris Vian

#26. And we must - absolutely must - maintain a fundamental humility before the Great Mystery. If we do not, religion always worships itself and its formulations and never God.

Richard Rohr

#27. Whether we speak of the death to self or a sinking down in humility and meekness before God or faith in the Lamb of God, it all means one thing - a deliverance from self to find our liberty and our blessedness in the living sacrifice of ourselves for all around us. THE END

Andrew Murray