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.

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.

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.

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Don't wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.

People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.