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Quotes about Pride

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
— William Faulkner
A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.
— Billy Graham
23rd May, 1872.—There seems but little prospect of Christianity spreading by ordinary means among Mohamadans. Their pride is a great obstacle, and is very industriously nurtured by its votaries. No new invention or increase of power on the part of Christians seems to disturb the self-complacent belief that ultimately all power and dominion in this world will fall into the hands of Moslems.
— David Livingstone
There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.
— Bishop TD Jakes
He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.
— BB Warfield
God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.
— Max Lucado
God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.
— Caster Semenya
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
— Charles Spurgeon
Don't wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
— Watchman Nee
As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
— CS Lewis
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
— DA Carson