Quotes related to James 4:6
No one ever got radicalized by being grateful.
— Gloria Steinem
Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.
— Gordon Hinckley
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary & virtuous function.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think in some ways it makes me feel uncomfortable, just getting a bunch of attention. I'd rather just stay chill and kind of lay low.
— DeAndre Yedlin
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
— Edmund Burke
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.
— Thomas Merton
Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.
— Francis de Sales
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
— St. Augustine
A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
— Martin Luther
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
— Ellen White
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
— Aldous Huxley