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Quotes about Pride

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
The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
— Thomas a Kempis
God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.
— Tullian Tchividjian
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
— Martin Luther
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
— Max Lucado
God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.
— Derwin Gray
Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.
— John Maxwell
If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.
— John Calvin
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
If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
— Tony Campolo
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.
— John Wesley