“God could have come to our rebellious planet as a military conqueror—in fact, that’s how Jesus will return at the end of history (Revelation 19:11-16). Instead, he chose to come as a helpless baby, totally dependent on Mary and Joseph to sustain and protect him. Here’s one reason why: so we would know that we must come to God with the humility of a child. “Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3).
In a world that values power, why does God value humility? Because he cannot do for us what we try to do for ourselves. He cannot give what we will not admit we need to receive. He cannot lead us if we will not admit we need his wisdom. He cannot save us if we try to save ourselves.”
Jim Denison
“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
C.S. Lewis
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.”
G.K. Chesterton
“One may be so full of self as to be empty.”
Dale Carnegie
“For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?”
1 Corinthians 4:7
