 Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges. Author: Rick Warren |
| Pride is a barrier to all spiritual progress. Author: Harry Ironside |
| The cause why our oppressors prevail oft against us is, because we trust too much in our own wits, and lean too much upon our own inventions opposing subtility to subtility, one evil device to another, matching and maintaining policy by policy, and not committing our cause to God. Author: Abraham Wright |
| Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. Author: Richard Sibbes
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil. Author: Stephen Charnock
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced. Author: D.L. Moody
Source: Christian History, n. 25. |
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| And what else is the cause of all transgression, but that man's ignorant pride will have his will preferred to the will of God. Author: William Cowper |
| Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace. Author: Philip Yancey |
| God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself. Author: Francis Frangipane |
| When Jesus entered Jerusalem the people spread their clothes in the way and strewed branches before Him in order to do Him honour. Jesus rode upon an ass, according to the word of the prophet. His feet did not touch the road which was decorated in His honour. It was the ass which trod upon the garments and the branches. But the ass would have been very foolish to have been uplifted on that account; for the road really was not decked in its honour! It would be just as foolish if those who bear Christ to men were to think anything of themselves because of what men do to them for the sake of Jesus. Author: Sadhu Sundar Singh |
| Sin came through the pride of Lucifer and salvation came through the humility of Jesus. Author: Zac Poonen |
| It is a proud spirit, that will not let grace be exalted, but puts self, in the throne of Christ, and his righteousness. It is a filthy and abominable spirit, and pollutes the man more and more: and God abhors it, as that which contradicts his most glorious plot. Author: Ralph Erskine
Source: Law-Death, Gospel-Life |
