Quotes about Pride

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there.

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.

Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual dullness and ignorance. Sloth represents spiritual laziness. Presumption represents spiritual pride and arrogance. The consequences of all three conditions are self-inflicted incarceration and lack of progress on the King's Highway.

The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

The devil has some Christians in POW camps due to alcohol, drugs, pornography, fear, discouragement, depression, pride, narcissism, materialism, and a whole host of other problems.

I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,