Quotes related to James 4:6
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
— DA Carson
Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.
— St. Augustine
I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.
— Moby
I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.
— Will Rogers
Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
— John Bunyan
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
— CS Lewis
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
— John Lennon
The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.
— Alan Redpath
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
— Andrew Carnegie
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
— St. Jerome
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
— Karl Barth