John Templeton Quotes

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

When I'm not as humble as I ought to be, I tend to get knocked down. What I do is to glorify God.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

It would not be wise for us to say we know what we don't know.

There is a cleansing humility about doubt.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

My aim is just to remain as humble and as godly as I can be.

I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.

My personal growth stems from the humility with which I navigate the world, namely with a reverence for all of the knowledge that I've yet to learn but that is out there available to me.

Humility, we say, is very important because we feel humility means the ability to listen, the ability to respect another's opinion and to find that everybody around you in some subject knows more.

Obviously, with my faith, too, I don't want to seem like it's all about me, me, me. It takes away from what I do for Him, for the Lord.

I'm thankful God really slowed me down and showed me, whatever he had gave to me, he can take it away.

With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.

Don't ever judge anybody. You don't know who anybody is, period... You gotta humble yourself. Just because you are where you are, it doesn't mean you aren't talking to someone great.

For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.

I have been trying to get the hang of not being proud but instead turning that into thankfulness. Really whatever we have to be proud about, it is something given to us by the Lord.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know