Quotes related to James 4:6
Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
— Edmund Burke
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
— Max Lucado
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
— Randy Alcorn
Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.
— John Owen
It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.
— CS Lewis
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
— CS Lewis
We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.
— Charles Spurgeon
There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.
— Charles Spurgeon
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
— DH Lawrence