Quotes about Pride

I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.

sin is deceptively strong and pride has many faces. I

The knowledge of God's Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism (1 Cor. 8:1-3). This causes us to justify ourselves rather than repent of the unforgiveness.

Pride keeps you from dealing with truth. It distorts your vision. You never change when you think everything is fine. Pride hardens your heart and dims the eyes of your understanding. It keeps you from the change of heart--repentance--that will set you free.

When you talk of your journey and of what you have heard and seen, you inwardly desire your own glory in all you do and say.

Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual dullness and ignorance. Sloth represents spiritual laziness. Presumption represents spiritual pride and arrogance. The consequences of all three conditions are self-inflicted incarceration and lack of progress on the King's Highway.

He who is down, needs fear no fall; He who is low, has no pride. He who is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.

humility comes before honor and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Presumption said, Every fat must stand upon his own bottom.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.

Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.

The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.