Quotes About Vain-glory

The virtue of this great saint was often exercised with temptations. One was a suggestion to quit his desert and go to Rome, to serve the sick in the hospitals; which, by due reflection, he discovered to be a secret artifice of vain-glory inciting him to attract the eyes and esteem of the world. True humility alone could discover the snare which lurked under the specious gloss of holy charity

Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vain-glory is the bane of us, the humans.

Almsgiving is not a service of God, but of vain-glory, if it spring not from divine love.

Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory.

what cruel and bloodthirsty beasts are smug presumption, vain-glory, pride, and carelessness

Do not therefore pull yourself up with vain-glory about the trifling advantages of a poor victory.