Quotes about Pride

Transcendence is a healthy dose of insignificance to a race whose root sin is pride. Transcendence cuts us all down to our proper proportion before an awesome God. That you and I are not significant is a wonderful, freeing discovery, and that's what church is for.

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

Pride goes before destruction.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Let a man be right with God, reconciled through the blood of the cross, humbled at the foot of Calvary; let him be broken, coming to God guilty and hopeless and needy; and at that moment God takes hold of him and transforms and uses all his gifts and qualities, until that man becomes a mighty influence. But he has first to come down from his ladder of pride to the very foot of the cross.

I want to have a lot to do with winning a championship or bringing a championship back to the city of Philadelphia.

I want to have a diploma to hang on my wall. Even if I don't use it, I can say I graduated from UF.

When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

I feel as if I'm God's champion, and I have a lot of pride in that.