When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.

Chesterton says, in essence, that there is a dislocation of humility in our times. We have become more confident in who we are and less in what we believe. Our pride has moved us from the organ of conviction to the organ of ambition, when it is intended to be the other way around. In short, our confidence should be in our message and not in ourselves.

Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.

true spirituality will never submit to pride.

The hallmark of conversion is to see one's own spiritual poverty. arrogance and conceit ought to be inimical to the life of the believer. A deep awareness of one's own new hungers and longings is a convincing witness both to God and God's grace within.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.

If you can't be corrected, you have a problem with pride. If you rebel against authority, if you want to take all the credit and glory to yourself, if you say "I" too often, then you have a problem with pride. It

Grace is the power of God to help us in other areas in which we cannot help ourselves.

You must realize that you can never deserve God's blessings—you can never be worthy of them. You can only humbly accept and appreciate them, and be in awe of how good He is and how much He loves you.

I am not fit for this office and never should have been here.

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.