 The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. Topics: Praise
Source: Reflections on the Psalms |
| People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs. Topics: Praise
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost |
| Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. Topics: Prayer, Confession |
| In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed. Topics: Prayer, Jesus |
| The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior. Topics: Pride
Source: The Screwtape Letters |
| The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost. Topics: Pride
Source: Surprised by Joy |
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| The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe. Topics: Pride
Source: Mere Christianity |
| Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. Topics: Pride, Self-righteousness
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. Topics: Pride |
| According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Topics: Pride, Teachers |
| Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that is "finding his place in it," while really it is finding its place in him. Topics: Prosperity |
| The preservation of society, and of the species itself, are ends that do not hang on the precarious thread of Reason: they are given by Instinct. Topics: Reasoning
Source: The Abolition of Man |
