Quotes About Arrogance

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God.

And God 'sits in the heavens and laughs' at the proud who pretend to be more than they are.

If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.

God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet.

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

I'm-A-God-Look-At-Me.

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.

Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

Many presidents have believed in God, but Donald Trump evidently believes that he is God.

I am a little god! Critics, be gone!

"The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.