Quotes about Pride

Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.

Every Christian has a choice between being humble or being humbled.

But his doom 54: Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought 55: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 56: Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes 57: That witness'd huge affliction and dismay 58: Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:

Vain war with Heaven; and, by success untaught, His proud imaginations thus displayed:—

Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King:

With ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud.

Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines—as well as upon works!

If you want to be your own god, you have to settle for living in a tiny universe where there is room for only one person.

Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.

Wherefore, as the elect of God, let us put on humility in all things; and let me add, that there is no grace whereby at this day we may more glorify God and the gospel, now the world is sinking into ruin under the weight of its own pride.

Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it