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Quotes about Superiority

The superiority of spiritual power over sensuous is the central point of Christian Science.
— Mary Baker Eddy
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.
— John Knox
Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not in wanting to be noticed but in wanting to be the most noticed. It is not in wanting to have things but in wanting more things than others.
— Billy Graham
It is impossible to enter into fellowship with God when you are in a critical mood. Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others.
— Oswald Chambers
No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.
— CS Lewis
Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!
— Ezekiel 32:19
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis
— Samuel Johnson
C. S. Lewis once said, "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
— Patrick Morley
The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.
— John Calvin
Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not.
— Hilaire Belloc
Keep in mind as you face Satan's tricks of deception that you cannot fight him on your own, with your own methods, or even with your own thoughts. God's Word—His truth—trumps Satan. You don't. Satan has constitutional superiority over every man and woman because he is a spirit being.
— Tony Evans
Ironically, moral relativists often even pride themselves on being morally superior to others.
— Nancy Pearcey