Quotes About Pride

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

The favor of God does not bless self-promotion

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God.

If we do not worship God, God will not be the lesser for it. But we will.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.