Quotes related to James 4:6
As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.
— Andrew Murray
Your civilization was once alive, vibrant, productive, and borne in glory. Now look at you—a wandering, questioning pack of rebels teetering on the brink of dissolution.
— Andy Andrews
I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, and I was nominated for an Academy Award. My head got inflated. My friends were the real ones who said, 'You're acting different.' But the truth is that I don't need that, because I don't get out of hand.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
— St. Augustine
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.
— Charles Spurgeon
Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.
— Mother Angelica
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.
— Tim Tebow
Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I feel privileged to play for Manchester United. It is something, when I'm old, I will always be proud of.
— Juan Mata
Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,' says C. S. Lewis.
— Lee Strobel
Who did you pass on the road? the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay. Nobody, said the Messenger. Quite right, said the King; this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you. I do my best, the Messenger said in a sullen tone. I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do! He can't do that, said the King, or else he'd have been here first.
— Lewis Carroll