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The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of the stony heart, that is, the stubborn, proud, rebelliuos, unbelieving heart, is, in general, the workd of mortification that we treat of.
— John Owen
We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.
— JC Ryle
Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.
— Gordon Hinckley
I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
— Margaret Fuller
Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
— Brigham Young
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
— Frederick Buechner
Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied.
— Samuel Johnson
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.
— Paulo Coelho
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
— Proverbs 26:12
Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.
— Mark Batterson
True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.
— Mark Batterson
Lest anyone think that any action, however required or useful, could be a source of pride, Sibbes preached that "it is a sottish conceit to think that we can fit ourselves for grace, as if a child in the womb could forward its natural birth. If God hath made us men, let us not make ourselves gods."107
— Mark Dever