"Forget about self-confidence; it’s useless. Cultivate God-confidence." -1 Corinthians 10:12 // MSG (via adarkhorse)
"Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with." -Peter Marshall
"Sometimes we need to fall off our 'mountain' to remind ourselves why we decided to 'climb' it in the first place." -KnowGodKnowLove
"Be humble, no grumble." -KnowGodKnowLove
"Be humble, no grumble." -KnowGodKnowLove
"The superior man blames himself, the inferior man blames others." -Don Shula
"If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less." -C.S. Lewis
R - recognition of your sins
O - obedience to God
S - submission to God
"God gave us mouths that close and ears that don’t - that should tell us something." -Anonymous
"For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." - Matthew 23:12
"When you’re humble, nothing can touch you, neither praise nor disgrace because you know who you are." -Mother Theresa
"Humility is the theme of today’s Gospel reading. Today we hear Jesus speaking about someone at a wedding feast seating himself in a place of prominence, only to be asked to move to a lower place when someone more eminent arrives. True humility is not bothering where we sit; not insisting on being seen only with the right people; being willing to be overlooked, to associate with those who can do nothing for us. Humility is not a pose. It is not phony. Humility does not mean the beautiful woman pretending that she is ugly, or the clever man pretending he is stupid. Humility means recognizing talents and even achievements for what they are, namely things given to us by God out of sheer goodness; things for which we can take little credit or none but which impose upon us a responsibility.
Jesus reminded us of that responsibility when he said: “Every one to whom much is given, much will be required.” Humility never means pretending that we are less than we are. Humility means recognizing that even our greatest achievements are insignificant and an inadequate return for all that God has given us.
Come to God in that spirit of humility and we will be overwhelmed and overjoyed at God’s generosity. But if we come to God appealing to what we deserve because we have earned them, then we will get what we deserve. God is never unfair. When we discover, however, how little we deserve, we will be shocked.
Suppose, on the other hand, that we decide simply to forget about what we deserve. Suppose that the lowest place at a wedding reception is just as acceptable as the place of honor, suppose that we appeal not to what we deserve but to God’s generosity, then we shall have achieved something more precious than the things which we are most proud of. Then we shall have attained humility. Humility is the state of being empty before God. Only when we are empty before God can God can fill in us His joy, His love and His peace." -http://biblereflection.blogspot.com/
"If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father." -Philippians 2:1-11
6Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father." -Philippians 2:1-11
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less." -C.S. Lewis
R - recognition of your sins
O - obedience to God
S - submission to God
"God gave us mouths that close and ears that don’t - that should tell us something." -Anonymous
"For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." - Matthew 23:12
"When you’re humble, nothing can touch you, neither praise nor disgrace because you know who you are." -Mother Theresa
"Humility is the theme of today’s Gospel reading. Today we hear Jesus speaking about someone at a wedding feast seating himself in a place of prominence, only to be asked to move to a lower place when someone more eminent arrives. True humility is not bothering where we sit; not insisting on being seen only with the right people; being willing to be overlooked, to associate with those who can do nothing for us. Humility is not a pose. It is not phony. Humility does not mean the beautiful woman pretending that she is ugly, or the clever man pretending he is stupid. Humility means recognizing talents and even achievements for what they are, namely things given to us by God out of sheer goodness; things for which we can take little credit or none but which impose upon us a responsibility.
Jesus reminded us of that responsibility when he said: “Every one to whom much is given, much will be required.” Humility never means pretending that we are less than we are. Humility means recognizing that even our greatest achievements are insignificant and an inadequate return for all that God has given us.
Come to God in that spirit of humility and we will be overwhelmed and overjoyed at God’s generosity. But if we come to God appealing to what we deserve because we have earned them, then we will get what we deserve. God is never unfair. When we discover, however, how little we deserve, we will be shocked.
Suppose, on the other hand, that we decide simply to forget about what we deserve. Suppose that the lowest place at a wedding reception is just as acceptable as the place of honor, suppose that we appeal not to what we deserve but to God’s generosity, then we shall have achieved something more precious than the things which we are most proud of. Then we shall have attained humility. Humility is the state of being empty before God. Only when we are empty before God can God can fill in us His joy, His love and His peace." -http://biblereflection.blogspot.com/
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