Matthew Henry Quotes

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

Be humble, don't have too much pride and think you're too good for anything.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.

Pride leaves no room for grace.

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.

I've had times when I've done what seems like a thousand interviews to promote a film that I'm in. I start to think that I'm the best thing that ever happened to the world, talkin' about myself for cryin' out loud. Then I come home, and my wife needs me to help with dinner and empty the garbage, and the kids need help with their homework.

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

I remember walking down the aisle, and I got down on my knees as a person who is so selfish, but when I rose back up the Lord had become the Master of my life.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.