Isaac Watts Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• When I survey the wondrous cross
  On which the Prince of Glory died,
  My richest gain I count but loss,
  And pour contempt on all my pride.

  Isaac Watts

  Humility, Pride, Loss

  1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 'Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ'.

• Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

  Isaac Watts

  Pride, Degrees, Reason

• Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I,
  To mourn, and murmur and repine,
  To see the wicked placed on high,
  In pride and robes of honor shine.
  But oh, their end, their dreadful end,
  Thy sanctuary taught me so,
  On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand,
  And fiery billows roll below.

  Isaac Watts

  Pride, Power, Rocks

  Thomas Hastings, Isaac Watts, William Patton (1836). “The Christian Psalmist: Or, Watts' Psalms and Hymns, with Copious Selections from Other Sources”, p.127

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