 There is nothing in the world that works such satanic, profound, God-defiant pride as false assurance; nothing works such utter humility, or brings to such utter self-emptiness, as the child-like spirit of true assurance. Author: A.A. Hodge
Topics: Humility, Assurance |
If pride turned some of the angels into demons, then humility can doubtless make angels out of demons.
- John Climacus Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Humility |
| It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. Author: Augustine
Topics: Angels, Pride, Humility |
| Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Humility |
| Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Humility |
| Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because He shows us both God and our own wretchedness. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Pride |
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| Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Pride |
| A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Contentment, Thankfulness |
| According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Pride, Teachers |
| Pride may be set down as "the sin" of human nature. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Pride |
| No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harbored in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Pride, Discipline |
| There is nothing into which the heart of man so easily falls as pride, and yet there is no more vice which is more frequently, more emphatically, and more eloquently condemned in Scripture. Pride is a thing which should be unnatural to us, for we have nothing to be proud of. In almost every other sin, we gather us ashes when the fire is gone. But here, what is left? The covetous man has his shining gold, but what does the proud man have? He has less than he would have had without pride, and is no gainer whatever. Pride wins no crown. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Pride |
| There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a study of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity, Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: God |
| No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat. Author: Charles Stanley
Topics: Pride, Weakness, Strength |
| I believe firmly that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Spirit will fill every corner of our hearts. But if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. We must be emptied before we can be filled. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: The Heart |
| If we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God, and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Holy Spirit |
| 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
Topics: Pride |
| If we exalt money, status, or sex above the Word of God, we are living in idolatry. Every time we inwardly submit to the strongholds of fear, bitterness, and pride, we are bowing to the rulers of darkness. Each of these idols must be smashed, splintered, and obliterated from the landscape of our hearts. Author: Francis Frangipane
Topics: Idolatry |
| We each ought to take heed that our boldness to talk to others about problems with the boss or pastor or spouse is not just a pretense for self righteousness, pride and dishonour. Author: Francis Frangipane
Topics: Relationships |
| Despondency is not a state of humility. On the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride; nothing is worse. Whether we stumble, or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course. Author: Francois Fenelon
Topics: Pride |
| If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Pride, Preaching |
| There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. Author: George Washington
Topics: Politics |
| In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance into the pavilion of God. The secret of his presence is a more secure refuge than a thousand Gibraltars. I do not mean that no trials come. They may come in abundance, but they cannot penetrate into the sanctuary of the soul, and we may dwell in perfect peace even in the midst of life fiercest storms. Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
Topics: Trials, Peace |
| Pride is a barrier to all spiritual progress. Author: Harry Ironside
Topics: Pride |
| Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Pride, Humility, Thankfulness |
| No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. Author: Hosea Ballou
Topics: Achievement, Business, Work |
| Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness. Author: Isaac Watts
Topics: Cheerfulness |
| Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down. Author: J.C. Ryle
Source: Thoughts for Young Men.
Topics: Pride, Ignorance |
| Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness, pride in our own deserts. Nothing is so likely to keep a man out of heaven, and prevent him seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something, we shall never be saved. Author: J.C. Ryle
Topics: Pride |
| The focus of health in the soul is humility, while the root of inward corruption is pride. In the spiritual life, nothing stands still. If we are not constantly growing downward into humility, we shall be steadily swelling up and running to seed under the influence of pride. Author: J.I. Packer
Source: Rediscovering Holiness. Christianity Today, v. 36, n. 13.
Topics: Humility |
| He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide. Author: John Bunyan
Topics: Humility |
| It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person. Author: John Bunyan
Topics: Pride |
| Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is. Author: John Chrysostom
Topics: Finances |
| It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride. Author: John Piper
Topics: Pride, The Cross, Self-esteem |
| A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ. Author: John Piper
Topics: Christians, Brokenness |
| Boasting is the voice of pride in the heart of the strong. Self-pity is the voice of pride in the heart of the weak. Author: John Piper
Topics: Boasting, Self-pity |
| Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride. Author: John Selden
Topics: Pride |
| The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride. Author: John Stott
Topics: Leadership, Pride |
| There be three usual causes of ingratitude upon a benefit received - envy, pride, and covetousness; envy, looking more at other's benefits than our own; pride, looking more at ourselves than at the benefit; covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have. Author: Joseph Hall
Topics: Envy, Pride |
| Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin. Author: Leonard Ravenhill
Topics: God, Sin, Materialism |
| O monster justly abhorred of God and man! after being humiliated in so many ways, I cannot become humble, and I am so pampered with pride, that when I most endeavor to be humble, I set about my own praises! Author: Madame Guyon
Topics: Humility |
| The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride. Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Finances, Pride |
| The more we accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge in those artificial delights which gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency. Author: Matthew Henry
Topics: Contentment |
| In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised, they will either seek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear light, they will stab him with a "but" of detraction. Author: Owen Feltham
Topics: Envy, Pride, Excellence |
| Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. Author: Phillips Brooks
Topics: Self-confidence |
| We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming pride, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God calls abominable? Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of the world is more humiliating to our reason than the doctrines of the Gospel. A reflecting Christian sees more to excite his astonishment, and to exercise his faith, in the state of things between Temple Bar and St. Paul's, than in what he reads from Genesis to Revelations. Author: Richard Cecil
Topics: Pride, The Gospel, Providence |
| Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride. Author: Richard J. Foster
Topics: Joy, Obedience |
| Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. Author: Richard Sibbes
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
Topics: Affliction, Pride |
| Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges. Author: Rick Warren
Topics: Pride, Humility |
| Oh, thrice fools are we, who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle, know not that there is a kingdom before them; then, let our Lord's sweet hand square us, and hammer us, and strike off the knots of pride, self-love, and world-worship, and infidelity, that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house. Author: Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Heaven, Foolishness, Self-love |
| A worker who has done a good job can boast or feel a sense of pride in the work he has accomplished. Yet all of that is contrary to grace or a gift. Grace rules out any sense of merit, and a gift does away with any sense of something earned or paid for. Author: T.A. McMahon
Topics: Gifts, Grace |
| Pride thrust Nebuchadnezzar out of men's society, Saul out of his kingdom, Adam out of paradise, Haman out of court, and Lucifer out of heaven. Author: Thomas Adams
Topics: Pride |
| Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Pride |
| Pride will spit in pride's face. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Pride |
| Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. Author: Thomas Merton
Topics: Pride, Humility |
Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion.
- Author Unknown Author: Unknown Authors
Topics: Pride, Humorous |
| Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Satan, Pride, Attitude |
| Pride springs from desire. Man aspires to obtain a place for himself that he may feel honoured before men. He loves to hear praising voices and considers them just and true. He also attempts to elevate himself in his work, whether in preaching or in writing, for his secret self motive goads him on. In a word, this one has not yet died to his desire of vainglory. He is still seeking what he desires and what can inflate him. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Pride |
| The proud are ever most provoked by pride. Author: William Cowper
Topics: Pride |
| 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
Topics: Pride |
| He that rightly understands the reasonableness and excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly. Author: William Law
Topics: Charity, Money |
| You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough. Author: William Law
Topics: Pride, Humility |
| We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness - today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own. Author: William Law
Topics: Pride, Grief, Virtue |
| Sin came through the pride of Lucifer and salvation came through the humility of Jesus. Author: Zac Poonen
Topics: Sin, Pride, Humility |
