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Quotes about Pride

To the young woman I say, This is the moment in your life when he who is wooing you will be at his kindest. And if you do not see kindness in the man you are dating, beware! For the partnership you are looking for will be nourished and nurtured only on the basis of a love that is not arrogant or prideful, but kind.
— Ravi Zacharias
Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.
— Ravi Zacharias
God alone knows how to humble us without humiliating us and how to exalt us without flattering us. And how he effects this is the grand truth of the Christian message.
— Ravi Zacharias
true spirituality will never submit to pride.
— Ravi Zacharias
It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.
— Joseph Heller
If you can't be corrected, you have a problem with pride. If you rebel against authority, if you want to take all the credit and glory to yourself, if you say "I" too often, then you have a problem with pride. It
— Joyce Meyer
Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.
— Washington Allston
When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise.
— Watchman Nee
If we throw ourselves open to God, He will reveal. The trouble comes when we have closed areas, locked and barred places in our hearts, where we think, with pride, that we are right.
— Watchman Nee
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
— Dante Alighieri
We can still fall into the trap of self-deceit today. It always begins through pride and arrogance, somehow thinking that our ways are superior to God's ways. In this season when the church celebrates Jesus' mighty work of redemption, let's not miss the joy of complete obedience to God's will and plans for our life.
— Darlene Zschech
Unforgiveness, bitterness, pride, even disappointment have the ability to rot the bones of man (see Proverbs 14:30).
— Darlene Zschech