Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Pride, Receiving, Benefits

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1981). “On Loving God: Selection from Sermons”, Greenwood Press

• Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Humility, Pride, Fur

• Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Pride, Use, Benefits

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