I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
– DL Moody –
Humility
August 9, 2012
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.
– John Wesley –
August 5, 2012
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one’s self in God’s glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.
– EM Bounds –
August 4, 2012
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
August 2, 2012
Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.
– Charles Wesley –
August 1, 2012
Unwillingness to accept God’s “way of escape” from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within.
– Jim Elliot –
July 30, 2012
Many would be scantily clad if clothed in humility.
– Unknown –
July 29, 2012
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
– Bernard of Clairvaux –
July 25, 2012
Humility is not so much a grace or virus along with; it is the root of all, because it alone assumes the right attitude before God and allows Him as God to do all.
– Andrew Murray –
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