Quotes about Pride
TO HONOR GOD COMPLETELY, you need enough faith to leave with Him. Leave? Leave and go where, you ask? Leave the way you've always done life and start doing things differently with God. Leave the attitude, leave the stubborn pride, leave the right to be right, leave the control, and biggest of all, leave the unbelief.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Too much revelation and I'd pridefully run ahead of You. Too little and I'd be paralyzed with fear.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Ms. Babylon has thus come to see herself as God: "I shall always be here, mistress forever... I and I alone am still here" (Is 47:7, 8). No superpower can ever imagine it will cease to be in power, but this means its pretension is quasi-divine and must be corrected.
— John Goldingay
I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.
— John F. Kennedy
Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.
— John Keats
Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own
— Epictetus
Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
— Francis Chan
Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
— John of the Cross
Every Christian has a choice between being humble or being humbled.
— Charles Spurgeon
But his doom 54: Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought 55: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 56: Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes 57: That witness'd huge affliction and dismay 58: Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:
— John Milton
Vain war with Heaven; and, by success untaught, His proud imaginations thus displayed:—
— John Milton