Religious Humility Quotes

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn't like them clicking my picture when I am eating or when I visit a temple. I don't want to be big in front of God.

Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?

The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship.

Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.

I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.

God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.

I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.

To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.