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Outward beauty is the frame for the masterpiece of your soul.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

~ William Hutton

William Hutton Charity Good Pride

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or to speak of them with grief and pity. Spiritual pride is very apt to suspect others, but a humble Christian is most guarded about himself. He is as suspicious of nothing in the world as he is of his own heart. The proud person is apt to find fault with other believers, that they are low in grace, and to be much in observing how cold and dead they are and to be quick to note their deficiencies. But the humble Christian has so much to do at home and sees so much evil in his own heart and is so concerned about it that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts. He is apt to esteem others better than himself.

~ Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Humility Pride Sin

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?

~ Rachilde

Rachilde Depravity Pride Priestess Satan Sin

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.

~ John Bevere

John Bevere Humility Pride Repentance Sin

I shouldn’t complain about God’s mercy to others while thanking Him for His mercy to me. I shouldn’t commit the sin of pride by justifying my rebellion or my running from God compared to other people’s sin. Who am I to be angry at what the angels in Heaven rejoice in?

~ Teresa Schultz

Teresa Schultz Angels Angry God Mercy Pride Rebellion Rejoice Running Sin Thankful

Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.

~ Susan Cooper

Susan Cooper Pride Satan Sin

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Arrogance Bad Decisions Decisions Depravity Ego Egotistical Fallen Foolish Humility Inconsiderate Love Pride Self Centered Selfish Sin Sinners

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefore, no matter how the world uses the term, we must understand how God uses the term so we can understand the language of holy writ and profit thereby.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Ezra Taft Benson God Pride Righteousness Scriptures Sin

Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

~ Matt Chandler

Matt Chandler Humility Pride Sin

Pride becomes the blanket transgression that conceals the rest of our sins, allowing us to remain blind to them.

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

Alisa Hope Wagner Christianity Faith God Pride Sin

We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings are regarded as sacrosanct as they stand, where God is required to command what we already love, and to promise what we already desire.

~ N.t. Wright

N.t. Wright Hubris Idolatry Pride Sin

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Pride Regeneration Sanctification Self Discipline Self Indulgence Sin Sloth The Flesh

Satan fell by the force of gravity.

~ G.k. Chesterton

G.k. Chesterton Gravity Pride Satan Sin

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Timothy J. Keller God Gospel Humility Pride Sin

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.

~ Thomas More

Thomas More Philosophy Pride Sin Virtue

In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own law, I have a right to my self, my hatred and my desires, my life and my death. The mind and flesh of man are set on fire by pride; for it is precisely in his wickedness that man wants to be as God. Confession in the presence of a brother is the profoundest kind of humiliation. It hurts, it cuts a man down, it is a dreadful blow to pride...In the deep mental and physical pain of humiliation before a brother - which means, before God - we experience the Cross of Jesus as our rescue and salvation. The old man dies, but it is God who has conquered him. Now we share in the resurrection of Christ and eternal life.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Christ Confession Pride Sin The Cross

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

~ Flannery O'connor

Flannery O'connor Catholicism Pride Sin Smugness

If pride is a sin, then love must be the mother of sin.

~ Lionel Suggs

Lionel Suggs Love Pride Sin

There are times when Pride must transform into Vanity in order to reach the astray echo of the reflection of self.

~ Lionel Suggs

Lionel Suggs Evolution Pride True Self Vanity

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

~ Roger Kahn

Roger Kahn Book Important Page 297 Pride Read Somebody Typing Write Writing

He may have stolen my heart or had he taken my soul? I couldn’t be sure but I refused to let him have my pride too.

~ Abbi Glines

Abbi Glines Heart Hurt Love Pride Soul

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.

~ C.s. Lewis

C.s. Lewis Christian Values Humility Pride

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

~ Ann Landers

Ann Landers Humility Pride

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

~ Andrew Murray

Andrew Murray Humility Pride

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.

~ William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare All S Well That Ends Well Ass Braggart Bragging Humility Humor Parroles Pride Shakespeare

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon Humbleness Humility Pride

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Timothy J. Keller Humility Pride

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

~ C.s. Lewis

C.s. Lewis Humility Pride

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Acknowledge Arrogance Ego Humility Paradox Pride

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there is any universal truth.” It sounds humble. But look carefully at what is happening. It’s like a servant saying: I am not smart enough to know which person here is my master—or if I even have a master. The result is that I don’t have a master and I can be my own master. That is in reality what happens to relativists: In claiming to be too lowly to know the truth, they exalt themselves as supreme arbiter of what they can think and do. This is not humility. This is the essence of pride.

~ John Piper

John Piper Humility Pride Relativism

In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.

~ Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Humility Population Growth Pride

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

~ G.k. Chesterton

G.k. Chesterton Humility Pride

We are not worthy to unloose the latchets of Jesus' shoes, because, if we do, we begin to say to ourselves, What great folks are we; we have been allowed to loose the latchets of the Lord's sandals. If we do not tell somebody else about it with many an exultation, we at least tell ourselves about it, and feel that we are something after all, and ought to be held in no small repute.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon Humility Pride

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

~ Ken Follett

Ken Follett Humility Pride

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

~ Andrew Murray

Andrew Murray Humility Pride

Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the light of the world.

~ J 'Son M. Lee

J 'Son M. Lee Humbleness Humility Inspirational Inspirational Quote Pride

when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, ofhell.

~ Andrew Murray

Andrew Murray Humility Original Sin Pride

I had such a hard time giving all the glory to God when first accepting Him as Lord. Coming out of a theatre background where there were many applauds and accolades, I suffered from what I call attention-itis - the need for recognition. It took many years and much eating of crow before I became conscious of giving all praise to God for my accomplishments.

~ Sheryl Young

Sheryl Young Glory God S Will Humility Praise Pride Recognition

Alex Rodriguez seemed not to fit in with the rest of his Yankee teammates. For instance, he wanted a clubhouse attendant personally assigned to him, when there were four or five for the whole team. Seeing the rift between him and the rest of the team and how Rodriguez's major focus on how HE was perceived, Joe Torre suggested in the individual meeting that Rodriguez at least get his own coffee rather than send someone to get it for him. Later that day, Alex Rodriguez made a point of telling the manager that he got his own coffee – drawing attention to himself, even in what was meant to be just an example of how he could fit in with normal behavior.

~ Tom Verducci

Tom Verducci Humility Pride Self Centeredness
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