Quotes on Humility & Pride

Christian quotes on Humility & Pride — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

C.S. Lewis

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

Philip Yancey

It is better to be a patient of Christ than a doctor of theology.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is a God, and I'm not him.

John Mark Comer

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

Tim Keller

God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.

Craig Groeschel

I am just a small cable - God is the current.

Mother Teresa

Humility is the ability to look up even to the smallest things in life.

Albert Schweitzer

I would rather you make mistakes and be kind than work miracles and be unkind.

Mother Teresa

We must learn to look at people less in terms of what they do and fail to do, and more in terms of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

C.S. Lewis

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I wish to be, I am not what I hope to be in the world beyond; but still I am not what I once was, and by the grace of God I am what I am.

John Newton

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself one way or the other at all.

William Temple

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because He shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

Blaise Pascal

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Henry Ward Beecher

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous.

Blaise Pascal

We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.

D.L. Moody

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace.

Unknown

I am not a woman with great faith – I am a woman with a little faith in the great God!

Kathryn Kuhlman

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time.

Tim Keller

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Tim Keller

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

C.S. Lewis

The ground is level at the foot of the cross.

Billy Graham

And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily--open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.

Eugene Peterson

Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.

Philip Yancey

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

Thomas Merton

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.

Tim Keller

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Oswald Chambers

In a black night on a black stone, a black ant. God sees it.

Afrikanisches Sprichwort

Empty buckets are best suited for the well of grace.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is more glory in one drop of God's approval than in an ocean of human praise.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The one with weak faith is just as much a child of God as the hero of faith. Our heavenly Father has the same loving heart for all.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When one has completely given up trying to make something of oneself, then one throws oneself entirely into God's arms.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Once you have lost everything, there is no room left for pride, only for grace.

Gordon MacDonald

I want only the best for other people, but I am jealous when they get it. Thank you for accepting me with all my contradictions.

Richard J. Foster

God let us behold your salvation, trust in nothing transient, not rejoice in vanity! Let us become simple, and before you here on earth be pious and joyful like children!

Matthias Claudius

Often I close the Bible and fold my hands: that people are held so high and precious before God!

Matthias Claudius

People quoted here

C.S. Lewis, Philip Yancey, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, John Mark Comer, Tim Keller, Craig Groeschel, Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Newton, William Temple, Blaise Pascal

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