Quotes about Pride

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.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

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

Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied.

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.

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

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.

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