Quotes related to 1 Peter 5:5
One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God
— Frederick Buechner
Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.
— St. John Chrysostom
The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.
— Charles Spurgeon
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.
— Louie Giglio
People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.
— Rick Warren
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?
— St. Basil
Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.
— Alphonsus Liguori
The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.
— AW Tozer
What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
— Bernard of Clairvaux
It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.
— Francis Chan
God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.
— Max Lucado